Delusion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DELUSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of deluding
• an idiosyncratic belief or impression maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder
• the action of deluding or the state of being deluded
• mistaken idea or belief
• The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
• The state of being deluded or misled.
• That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
• (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary
• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

Words related to DELUSION

delusional11 delusionary15 delusionist12 delusionists13 delusions10 delusive12 delusively17 delusiveness16 delusivenesses18 delusory12 wanhope15

Words that contain DELUSION

delusions10 delusional11 delusionary15 delusionist12 delusionists13

How to use DELUSION in a sentence

• To the delusion of dreams not a few of the ancient philosophers lent themselves.
• Like the altered scale of space and time it was a complete delusion.
• Under this delusion, and boiling over with anger, he suddenly, without taking counsel of his ministers or of any living soul, touched a bell in his palace.
• The delusion, if delusion it were, clung to her, haunted her, pursued her, week after week.
• She was laboring under a misapprehension in regard to the girl, but I grasped at the straw, and did everything to foster her delusion.
• This delusion as to their natural military capacity was never dispelled until the later disaster in Thessaly.
• Spy Rock was something more than the seat of his delusion, it was the expression of his temperament.
• Thus did they wander in the paths of delusion and the ways of heedlessness, and return to their abode in that fire which feedeth on their own souls.
• So much the more bitter their experience, when they wake up from the delusion.
• The loss of this dear delusion was a painful shock to Alfred, as it is to many children.
• What, then, is certain? What even, if such a being exists, is beyond the reach of his powers of delusion? Why, the fact that the thought, the present consciousness, exists.
• But time and truth have dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.
• What is life? A mere illusion, Fleeting pleasure, fond delusion, Short-lived joy, that ends in sadness, Whose most constant substance seems But the dream of other dreams.
• The sacrifice of his integrity before his one all-mastering delusion seemed but a small thing, and cost his conscience but little after the sacrifices he had already made.
• Were it so, there is no doubt that this infinite universe with all its perfections has ended in sham and delusion with no result, no fruit, no permanence and no effect.
• A negro, under the same delusion, attempted to convert me into a chair, and another wanted to break me up for fuel, to be used in making a fire after daylight.
• Even the delusion that possessed thy mind was not brought about by any act of thine.
• They are none the less, all of them, by their solid coalition, material and moral, the defenders of lies above and delusion below.
• Perhaps we have not all quite escaped that delusion.
• To dispute with Ballantyne once more upon his delusion would be the merest waste of time.
• I could not deny that under the circumstances Ostend was a sham, a delusion, and a snare! When he observed that Ostend was grotesquely expensive, I admitted that he was right.
• Nicholas, Willansborough, a college living always passed by the knowing old bachelor fellows, and as regularly proving a delusion to the first junior in haste for a wife.
• I will not here find fault with the brilliant delusion of the possibility of a republic in France.
• Amidst the impediments of the world, they are doomed to view their intellectual banquet often rising before them, like some fairy delusion, never to taste it.
• No delusion however is more patent or more noxious.
• Hence a belief will arise, which cannot fail of binding their minds in the chains of delusion and superstition.

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