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An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

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  1. n. An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
  2. n. Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
  3. n. A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
  4. n. A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.
  5. n. an erroneous mental representation
  6. n. something many people believe that is false
  7. n. the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
  8. n. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
  9. 1. An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination. To cheat the eye with blear illusions. Milton. 2. Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour. Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise! Pope. 3. (Physiol.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination, regarding the former as originating with some external object, and the latter as having no objective occasion whatever. 4. A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc. Syn. -- Delusion; mockery; deception; chimera; fallacy. See Delusion. Illusion, Delusion. Illusion refers particularly to errors of the sense; delusion to false hopes or deceptions of the mind. An optical deception is an illusion; a false opinion is a delusion. E. Edwards.
  10. A sensation originated by some external object, but so modifiedas in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rollingof a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
  11. n:100 n. an erroneous mental representation n. something many people believe that is false