delusion in English

noun
1
an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.
the delusion of being watched

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2. What a delusion!

3. The Rabari suffered no such delusion.

4. This was not optimism, it was delusion.

5. You're clinging to the delusion.

6. Your hopes of promotion are a mere delusion.

7. Love can be nothing but a delusion.

8. He is under the delusion that he is Napoleon.

9. His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.

10. THE GOD DELUSION is an irreverent book.

11. Instruction from a tree is an utter delusion.

12. And wisdom usually follows illusion, delusion, and disillusion.

13. 28 His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.

14. And both are gripped by the same dogmatic delusion.

15. Obduracy , illusion and delusion of one can be terrible.

16. 15 They are a delusion,* a work of mockery.

17. Belief in utopian progress is increasingly seen as a delusion.

18. Bloodguilt I've lost myself in the cryptic abyss of delusion

19. 7 His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.

20. Of possession as the delusion we all run aground on.

21. The righteous anger fueling my ingenious, awful scheme was but delusion.

22. I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me.

23. The point is that you are suffering from a complex delusion.

24. The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. Benjamin Disraeli 

25. So Capgras syndrome is a disorder where you get a specific delusion.

26. I suppose self-delusion is a gift of natural selection as well.

27. He is under the delusion that I am going to cheat him.

28. He seems to have retreated into a world of fear and delusion.

29. The delusion was welcome, and I traded on it consciously and preposterously.

30. All my anti-Authoritarianism was a way of sustaining the narcissistic delusion

31. I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.

32. 23 Truly the hills and the turmoil on the mountains are a delusion.

33. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke 

34. Most of the people realized that their scheme was simply a snare and a delusion.

35. We may have one unsub, suffering from a delusion that he's actually an archangel.

36. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a Bug infestation.

37. Antonyms for Actuality include fantasy, fiction, illusion, irreality, phantasy, unreality, failure, forfeit, lie and delusion

38. The defendant is a cantankerous individual gripped by the dangerous delusion that his opinion matters.

39. The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion -- it's reality.

40. To talk of planning and decision making is, to these people, to indulge in self-delusion.

41. Arboreally Speaking, the 'Good Old Growth Curve Is a Delusion' by Neil Pederson December 27, 2011

42. Conceit is the delusion that our experiences ARE ourselves, and that our self has boundaries and substance and continuity

43. It is assumed that the incomprehensible is reified in the actual delusion by means of structural affinities.

44. Britain's weak balance of payments was not, however, a statistical delusion or the result of a reaction to one.

45. We sat in the packed aisles, the building's relative simplicity a delusion for what was to follow.

46. He seemed to be under the delusion that he would make his fortune within a few years.

47. Working on this delusion, they then feel either excited and act like silly children or confused and act like silly children.

48. With this type of misguided delusion, she has become a false prophet and has attempted to gain power. ...

49. The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion. Dr T.P.Chia 

50. There is no fire like lust, no grip like hate; there is no net like delusion, no river like craving.