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Synonyms for delusion
Synonyms for delusion: illusion and hallucination. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for delusion
Interchangeable with delusion in this sense
Audited under delusion's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one delusion carries in that sense.
- illusionnoun, in the sense "the act of deluding"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name delusion as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- hallucinationhallucination is a noun in the sense "a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea"
The first group is filed under delusion's own sense. The second reaches delusion from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
the act of deluding
She has a delusion that she is being spied on.
The true synonym
illusion
Same sentence, swapped: She has a illusion that she is being spied on.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for delusion in the sentence quoted.
- simulation
- bluff
- posture
Where delusion turns up in the game
delusion is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where delusion is the trap
- mistakenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is misunderstanding, in the sense "an understanding of something that is not correct", with delusion sitting one tile away.
Play delusion
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so delusion reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. delusion carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.