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