Words and phrases that have a meaning related to illusion: (188 results)
Antonyms:
maladroit
Often used in the same context:
delusion, myth, pretense, mirage, aura, artifice, dreamworld, simulacrum, impression, optical illusion, illusionism, unreality, charade, veneer, ex nihilo, fallacy, conceit, wishfulness, phantasm, chimera, imaginary, fig leaf, potemkin village, enchantment, notion, perception, conjuring trick, hyperreality, artificiality, ersatz, intangibility, ruse, sense, semblance, tangibility, evanescence, limitlessness, falseness, mystique, virtuality, misapprehension, pretensions, dreamscape, misimpression, afterimage, fantasies, utopia, idealisation, falsehood, smokescreen, deception, invulnerability, solitariness, patina, everydayness, nebulousness, invisibility, deceit, wishful thinking, cloak, phantasmagoria, permanence, paradox, infinitude, endlessness, incertitude, dailiness, insubstantiality, allure, guise, fictions, vicious circle, attitudinizing, sophistries, dialectic, contrivance, legerdemain, misconception, immanence, faits accomplis, translucence, inevitability, essence, mythologise, imposture, womanliness, idea, comfortableness, nothingness, rationality, idee fixe, nowness, ethereality, subterfuge, omnipotence, simultaneity, placeless, scrim, fool, modicum, hideousness, edenic, illusions, madness, antithesis, hallucination, ideality, mystification, delusions, imagining, absurdity, consonance, immediacy, epiphany, foolishness
More specific:
apparition, card trick, ignis fatuus, phantom, phantom limb, prestidigitation, shadow, sleight of hand, will-o'-the-wisp
Appears in the definition of:
animated cartoon, apparent motion, apparent movement, canal, cartoon, cine-camera, disenchanting, disillusioned, disillusioning, enlightened, entasis, establish, eye-deceiving, film, flat, flick, foreshorten, heraclitus, ignis fatuus, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, mirage, motion, motion-picture camera, motion-picture show, motion picture, movement, movie, movie camera, moving, moving-picture show, moving picture, optic, optical, phantom limb, pic, picture, picture show, sedulously, soliloquy, still, tactful, third-dimensional, three-d, three-dimensional, trompe-l'oeila, two-dimensional, undeceive, will-o'-the-wisp, wishful thinking
More general:
Also try:appearance, dissembling, dissimulation, performance
— Adjectives for illusion: optical, mere, dramatic, dangerous, pure, visual, theatrical, romantic, grand, complete, perfect, more...
Commonly used words are shown in bold. Rare words are dimmed.
Click on a word above to view its definition.
Click on a word above to view its definition.