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Webster 1913 Edition
Delusion
1.
The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
Pope.
2.
The state of being deluded or misled.
3.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
“A fanatic, either religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions; while the term illusion is applied solely to the visions of an uncontrolled imagination, the chimerical ideas of one blinded by hope, passion, or credulity, or lastly, to spectral and other ocular deceptions, to which the word delusion is never applied.” Whately.
Webster 1828 Edition
Delusion
DELUSION
,Noun.
1.
The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. We are all liable to the delusions of artifice.2.
False representation; illusion; error or mistake proceeding from false views.And fondly mournd the dear delusion gone.
Definition 2024
delusion
delusion
English
Noun
delusion (plural delusions)
- A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
- The state of being deluded or misled.
- That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
- 1960, William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-72869-5, LCCN 81101072, page 835:
- Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.
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Derived terms
Translations
act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind
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state of being deluded or misled
that which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief
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