delusions

noun

plural of delusion
1
as in illusions
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality her idea that her new man is a long lost prince is surely just a delusion

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2
as in myths
a false idea or belief he appears to suffer from the delusion that he's the best reporter in the business

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Recent Examples of delusions All my delusions were still intact; the hospitalization had done nothing to shake them. — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026 Symptoms of khat toxicity include delusions, loss of appetite, difficulty breathing, and increased blood pressure and heart rate. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026 The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 June 2026 Work picked up, and Harbour began building a career, often playing a supporting character who helps reveal the hypocrisies or delusions of the protagonists. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026 The third film in director Éric Rohmer’s series Comedies and Proverbs, Pauline at the Beach explores the emotions (and delusions) around summer love. — Air Mail, 20 June 2026 Liaquat Ahamed has spent his career studying the moments when the world’s financial system breaks down — the bad bets, the collective delusions, and the geopolitical accidents that tip economies into catastrophe. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026 The rigidity and delusions of tyrannies are incorrigible; their purity spirals end in executions, not just cancellations; their adventures end in devastation and slaughter. — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 OpenAI is also facing a number of wrongful death lawsuits, which allege that ChatGPT drove users to experience harmful delusions and, in some cases, to commit suicide. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 13 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for delusions
  1. illusions
  2. myths
  3. dreams
  4. errors
  5. fantasies
  6. visions
  7. daydreams
Noun
  • Presented Out of Competition at the 1967 edition of Venice, Deadly Sweet takes it cue from a brief encounter between a disenchanted man and a girl with no illusions in the wake of the murder of a nightclub owner in London.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 June 2026
  • Perhaps because of this aesthetic of illusions, the earnest state pride evident in some of the pavilions turns out to feel especially delightful.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
Definition of illusions
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  • After all, the best myths take our normal heroes-and-villains binary and punt it into a million pieces.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
  • But myths don’t need receipts, and this one has endured for nearly a thousand years.
    — Michele MetychAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
Definition of myths
Noun
  • Romelu Lukaku scored the fourth goal just at the end of stoppage time, and ending the USMNT’s dreams.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
Definition of dreams
Noun
  • The measurements auto-populate the quote, eliminating the transcription errors and ruler mistakes that have plagued the industry for decades.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Without an operator, the consequences of errors are much greater.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 July 2026
Definition of errors
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  • For this dourest of doubters, Musk’s claims for the feats ahead can only happen in the SpaceX founder’s head, or in the sci-fi fantasies Eisman grew up on.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Definition of fantasies
Noun
  • And for Rhaenyra, there are different visions of her premiership, one being something that looks a little like her father’s, that of the sort of moderate, kind of peaceful ruler.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 July 2026
  • Ahead of Independence Day, the two figureheads of America’s political parties offered competing visions for the nation’s future, each before symbols of the country’s past.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026
Definition of visions
Noun
  • And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026
  • One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026
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