delusion
31 synonyms found
- bamboozlement
- befooling
- calculated deception
- circumvention
- deceptiveness
- defrauding
- delusion of persecution
- dupery
- ensnarement
- flight of ideas
- flimflammery
- fond illusion
- hallucinosis
- hoodwinking
- mental block
- mental confusion
- nihilistic delusion
- outwitting
- overreaching
- paralogia
- psychological block
- putting on
- sophism
- spoofery
- spoofing
- spuriousness
- swindling
- tricking
- victimization
- willful misconception
- wrongness
Definition
(n) :
a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts; the state of being deluded or misled