illusion
IPA: ɪɫˈuʒʌn
noun
- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
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Examples of "illusion" in Sentences
- The showmanship sells the illusion.
- We undergo the experiences of the illusion.
- The persistence of this illusion is astonishing.
- The illusions appear to be both aural and visual.
- That was the illusion the negotiators gave themselves up to.
- Tactile illusions are illusions that exploit the sense of touch.
- He was droll, engaging and a master of grand illusion and platform magic.
- I'm saying that you're moronic AWOL argument has been thoroughly blasted out of the water, and your persistance of this illusion is amazing.
- As in painting, so more particularly in sculpture, that imitation of nature which we call illusion, is in no respect its excellence, nor indeed its aim.
- Photography flattens sculpture and stills its spatial violence, but Smith found that it also exposed new aspects of what he called the 'illusion of form.'
- Of course the symptoms are occurring: the term illusion refers to our interpretation of the meaning of the physical symptoms, not the existence of physical symptoms per se.
- Murray, like nearly everyone else, could not solve the riddle posed by Nadal's blend of power, hustle and desire: a crucial word that he translates directly from the Spanish when he speaks English, using the term "illusion."
- In evincing the impossibility of delusion, he makes no sufficient allowance for an intermediate state, which I have before distinguished by the term illusion, and have attempted to illustrate its quality and character by reference to our mental state when dreaming.
- It is not, however, clear that the term illusion is justified; for this supposes a distinction between truth and error-a distinction which has no meaning for the genuine pantheist; all our judgments being the utterance of the One that thinks in us, it is impossible to discriminate the true from the false.