Definition for Illusion:

• Deceptive appearance; false show; error.

Synonyms for Illusion:

• n.

  •
  • concept,
  • image,
  • belief,
  • idea,
  • philosophy,
  • principle,
  • faith,
  • commitment,
  • ideal,
  • thought,
  • make believe,
  • theory.
  •
  • a figment of your imagination,
  • false impression,
  • confusion,
  • misunderstanding.
  •
  • real.
  •apparition (noun)
  • bump night,
  • bump the night,
  • bump in night.
  •appearance (noun)
  • seemings,
  • seeming.
  •chimera (noun)
  • fool paradise,
  • fools paradise,
  • fata morganas.
  •cognition (noun)
  • semblance,
  • illusion.
  •conjuration (noun)
  • conjuration.
  •conjuring trick (noun)
  • conjuring trick.
  •deception (noun)
  • feint,
  • cover up,
  • chicane,
  • imposition,
  • chicanes,
  • coverup,
  • hogwash,
  • fast one,
  • jive,
  • mare's-nest,
  • fast shuffle,
  • jives.
  •delusion (noun)
  • over sight,
  • eidolons,
  • deceptivenesses,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • mis apprehension,
  • over-sights,
  • eidola,
  • over-sight,
  • self-deceptions,
  • self deceptions,
  • selfdeception,
  • mis-apprehension,
  • selfdeceptions,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • over sights,
  • self deception.
  •disguise (noun)
  • dis-simulation,
  • dis guises,
  • pre tense,
  • fig leaves,
  • fakings,
  • dis-guise,
  • co lorings,
  • dis simulation,
  • makebelieve,
  • dis guise,
  • pre-tensions,
  • dis-simulations,
  • get ups,
  • get-ups,
  • co-lorings,
  • pre tensions,
  • dis-guises,
  • puton,
  • co-loring,
  • co loring,
  • pre-tense,
  • dis simulations,
  • pre tenses,
  • dissimulations.
  •false appearance; false belief (noun)
  • mockery,
  • fool's paradise,
  • trip,
  • ghost,
  • Misbelief,
  • Phantasm,
  • error,
  • apparition,
  • virtual reality,
  • fallacy,
  • invention,
  • head trip,
  • ignus fatuus,
  • misapprehension,
  • Idolism,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • make-believe,
  • misimpression,
  • paramnesia.
  •fancy (noun)
  • envisionings,
  • romancings,
  • pie sky,
  • pie in sky,
  • pie the sky,
  • eyes fors,
  • envisagements,
  • big eye.
  •fantasy (noun)
  • conceivings,
  • objectifyings,
  • flight imagination,
  • fancyings,
  • mind trips,
  • externalizings,
  • atlantises,
  • air castles.
  •figment (noun)
  • castle in air,
  • castle the air,
  • castle air.
  •ghost (noun)
  • daemon,
  • frankenstein,
  • horror,
  • ogre,
  • bugaboo,
  • terror,
  • incubus,
  • monster,
  • specter,
  • vampire,
  • dracula,
  • werewolf,
  • bugbear,
  • hobgoblin,
  • bogey man,
  • shadow,
  • ghoul.
  •hallucination (noun)
  • figment the imagination,
  • figment imagination.
  •head game (noun)
  • head game.
  •illusion (noun)
  • magic trick,
  • phantasy,
  • legerdemain.
  •imagination (noun)
  • unreality,
  • wittiness,
  • visualizations,
  • visualization,
  • creative thought,
  • insights,
  • in sight,
  • ideality,
  • mental agility,
  • unrealities,
  • imaginativeness,
  • Idealities,
  • perceptibility,
  • resourcefulness.
  •imposition (noun)
  • hypocrisy.
  •insanity (noun)
  • mental disorder,
  • witlessness,
  • Mental Disorders,
  • senselessness,
  • Psychoses,
  • psychosis,
  • irresponsibility,
  • insaneness.
  •lure (noun)
  • siren songs,
  • seducements.
  •magic (noun)
  • fore-bodings,
  • fortune tellings,
  • voodooisms,
  • occultisms,
  • horoscopies,
  • hocuspocu,
  • pre sages,
  • pre-sages,
  • fore boding,
  • pre dictions,
  • sleight hand,
  • pre-dictions,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre-diction,
  • of impossible feats by tricks abracadabras,
  • fortune-tellings,
  • conjurings,
  • pre-sage,
  • fore bodings,
  • fortunetellings,
  • conjuries,
  • pre sage.
  •mistake (noun)
  • mis-print,
  • mis-statements,
  • mis calculations,
  • mis statements,
  • mis statement,
  • mis calculation,
  • overestimations,
  • mis-steps,
  • over-estimations,
  • mis application,
  • mis prints,
  • mis-application,
  • mis takes,
  • over-estimation,
  • mis-prints,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • under estimations,
  • mis print,
  • mis conceptions,
  • in-advertences,
  • in accuracy,
  • under estimation,
  • mis-conceptions,
  • in-advertence,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • mis-take,
  • mis interpretations,
  • mis judgment,
  • mis-judgments,
  • under-estimation,
  • mis interpretation,
  • mis-applications,
  • in-accuracies,
  • in advertences,
  • mis conception,
  • mis-conception,
  • in-accuracy,
  • in accuracies,
  • over estimation,
  • mis applications,
  • mis-calculations,
  • mis steps,
  • over estimations,
  • under-estimations,
  • mis-judgment,
  • slip tongue,
  • mis take,
  • false moves,
  • in advertence,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis judgments,
  • mis-calculation.
  •myth (noun)
  • tall stories.
  •optical illusion (noun)
  • trick light,
  • trick the eyesight,
  • optical-illusion,
  • visual fallacies,
  • trick eyesight.
  •preconception (noun)
  • prejudgment,
  • prejudgments,
  • preconceived idea.
  •prestidigitation (noun)
  • conjurations.
  •show (noun)
  • dis-play,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis play,
  • grandstand plays,
  • dis plays.
  •thaumaturgy (noun)
  • witchings.
  •trick (noun)
  • doubledealing.
  •vision (noun)
  • Visions,
  • warlock.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pipe dream,
  • simulation,
  • castle in the air,
  • simulacrum,
  • cardboard cut-out,
  • Ignis Fatuus.
  •
  • daydream,
  • rainbow,
  • fiction,
  • fraud.
  •
  • sham,
  • reverie.
  •
  • bubble.
  •Other relevant words:
  • changeable,
  • Tricking,
  • unsubstantial,
  • speculation,
  • shade,
  • dissembling,
  • changeful,
  • imaginary,
  • fanciful,
  • befooling,
  • colour,
  • ether,
  • fond illusion,
  • vapor,
  • heresy,
  • spectre,
  • wrong,
  • whim,
  • associate,
  • seem,
  • dye,
  • Swindling,
  • irregular,
  • dishonest,
  • romance,
  • entrancement,
  • Kidding,
  • defectiveness,
  • song and dance,
  • color,
  • faultiness,
  • entrapment,
  • falsehood,
  • fascination,
  • aberration,
  • psychopathy,
  • trickiness,
  • untrueness,
  • calculated deception,
  • Looming,
  • variable,
  • swindle,
  • sleight of hand,
  • erroneousness,
  • perversion,
  • poltergeist,
  • hint,
  • false,
  • impression,
  • fondness,
  • fictitious,
  • overreaching,
  • gloss,
  • insubstantial,
  • fault,
  • suggestion,
  • falsity,
  • obsession,
  • brainchild,
  • erratic,
  • falseness,
  • futility,
  • aberrancy,
  • idle fancy,
  • deviancy,
  • chimaera,
  • hoodwinking,
  • wishful thinking,
  • Misdoing,
  • Self-contradiction,
  • John,
  • spook,
  • sin,
  • distortion,
  • appear,
  • flaw,
  • misfeasance,
  • wildest dreams,
  • sinfulness,
  • maggot,
  • mist,
  • amphibian,
  • untruth,
  • Bluffing,
  • enchantment,
  • banshee,
  • exaggeration,
  • Conning,
  • ensnarement,
  • caper,
  • imagery,
  • capricious,
  • conjuring,
  • heterodoxy,
  • errancy,
  • captivation,
  • deceit,
  • untrue,
  • wrongness,
  • cloud,
  • delusory,
  • flimflam,
  • Manes,
  • flimflammery,
  • false light,
  • autism,
  • materialization,
  • doppelganger,
  • misconstruction,
  • performance,
  • subterfuge,
  • delusiveness,
  • ENG,
  • likeness,
  • possession,
  • vapour,
  • will-o'-the-wisp,
  • dupery,
  • enmeshment,
  • entanglement,
  • fallaciousness,
  • untruthfulness,
  • snare,
  • trickery,
  • misapplication,
  • misinterpretation,
  • wildest dream,
  • psychotic belief,
  • artificial,
  • inconsistent,
  • Misjudgment,
  • circumvention,
  • air,
  • Imagining,
  • Peccancy,
  • prank,
  • Defrauding,
  • unreal,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • illusory,
  • fantasque,
  • thin air,
  • deceitful,
  • fantastic,
  • smoke,
  • virtual image,
  • bedevilment,
  • pipedream,
  • revenant,
  • whimsy,
  • delirium,
  • bewitchery,
  • misrepresentation,
  • joke,
  • airy nothing,
  • dreamworld,
  • dreamland,
  • mutable,
  • invocation,
  • bamboozlement,
  • pipe,
  • snow job,
  • deceptive,
  • hamartia,
  • Deceiving,
  • antic,
  • victimization,
  • outwitting,
  • spoofing,
  • Fooling,
  • maya.

Paraphrases for Illusion:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    trick, enthusiasm.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    delusion.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    delusion, Self-delusion, illusory, misconception, impression, self-deception, deception, chimera, perception, fallacy, decoy, imagination, dream, vision, excitement, notion, semblance, fiction, mistake, deceit.

Antonyms for Illusion:

• n.

  • false appearance; false belief
    correction, truth, reality, fact, right, event, certainty, being.
  • Other antonyms:
    verity.

Illusion Sentence Examples:

• But the illusion of home was very faint.

• Scarce was this illusion gone when one of the men cried out " Land right a head - high land!"

Hypernym for Illusion:

• n.

  • cognition
    phantom, Phantasma, Fantasm, shadow, Phantasm, phantom limb, irradiation, apparition.

Hyponym for Illusion:

• n.

  • cognition
    appearance.