DELUSION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DELUSION?

Need another word that means the same as “delusion”? Find 18 synonyms and 30 related words for “delusion” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Delusion” are: psychotic belief, hallucination, head game, illusion, misapprehension, false impression, misconception, misunderstanding, mistake, error, misinterpretation, misconstruction, misbelief, deception, fooling, tricking, trickery, duping

Delusion as a Noun

Definitions of "Delusion" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “delusion” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary.
• The act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas.
• A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea.
• An erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary.
• An idiosyncratic belief or impression maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder.
• The action of deluding or the state of being deluded.

Synonyms of "Delusion" as a noun (18 Words)

deception	A thing that deceives. A range of elaborate deceptions.
duping	A person who is tricked or swindled.
error	The occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer. Spelling errors.
false impression	An outward appearance.
fooling	A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages.
hallucination	An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present. He refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination.
head game	The tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates.
illusion	Something many people believe that is false. He had no illusions about the trouble she was in.
misapprehension	A mistaken belief about or interpretation of something. People tried to exchange the vouchers under the misapprehension that they were book tokens.
misbelief	A wrong or false belief or opinion. The misbelief that alcohol problems require a specialist response.
misconception	A view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding. Public misconceptions about antibiotic use.
misconstruction	A kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately. I used a phrase which may be open to misconstruction.
misinterpretation	The action of interpreting something wrongly. His misinterpretation of the question caused his error.
mistake	Part of a statement that is not correct. A couple of spelling mistakes.
misunderstanding	A failure to understand something correctly. He left the army after a slight misunderstanding with his commanding officer.
psychotic belief	Any cognitive content held as true.
trickery	The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. The dealer resorted to trickery.
tricking	A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.

Usage Examples of "Delusion" as a noun

• The delusion of being watched.
• What a capacity television has for delusion.
• He has delusions of competence.

Associations of "Delusion" (30 Words)

amnesia	Partial or total loss of memory. They were suffering from amnesia.
bipolar	Of a person suffering from bipolar disorder. A sharply bipolar division of affluent and underclass.
chimerical	Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination- Douglas Bush. His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.
confusion	A situation of panic or disorder. The guaranteed income bond market was thrown into confusion.
daydream	Indulge in a daydream. Stop daydreaming and pay attention.
disarray	Bring disorder to. Her grey hair was in disarray.
dream	See hear or feel something in a dream. Maybe you dreamed it.
dystopia	State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror.
fantasy	Indulge in fantasies. It is a misleading fantasy to suggest that the bill can be implemented.
forgetfulness	Tendency to forget. His forgetfulness increased as he grew older.
hallucinate	Experience a hallucination of (something. He starts hallucinating that he is Jesus.
hallucination	An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present. He refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination.
hallucinatory	Characterized by or characteristic of hallucination. The bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever.
illusion	An erroneous mental representation. He had no illusions about the trouble she was in.
illusive	Deceptive; illusory. An illusive haven.
illusory	Based on illusion; not real. She knew the safety of her room was illusory.
imaginary	(of a number or quantity) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number (usually the square root of −1, represented by i or j). Chris had imaginary conversations with her.
imagination	The ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful. Her story captured the public s imagination.
megalomania	A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur.
neurosis	A relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality. Freud s two stage account of neurosis.
oblivion	Amnesty or pardon. He sought the great oblivion of sleep.
paranoia	A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an organized system. It may be an aspect of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality. Mild paranoia afflicts all prime ministers.
paranoiac	Suffering from or relating to paranoia. Nonsensical paranoiac ramblings.
paranoid	A person who is paranoid. Paranoid schizophrenia.
psychosis	A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. The symptoms of psychosis.
reverie	An abstracted state of absorption. I slipped into reverie.
schizophrenia	Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact. Gibraltar s schizophrenia continues to be fed by colonial pride.
surreal	Having the qualities of surrealism bizarre. A surreal mix of fact and fantasy.
trick	Intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion. Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards.
visualize	Make visible. The DNA was visualized by staining with ethidium bromide.