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(n)
An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
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Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
Skill at fellatio.
Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
The imagination.
A remarkable act carried out purportedly by magical means but in reality performed by trickery or illusion, generally as a form of entertainment.
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
(psychology) The innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
(countable) The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.
A type of magic trick in which something is made to appear or disappear.
(adj)
Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The act of deluding oneself, or the state of being so deluded.
The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.
(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.
(uncountable) The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
(countable or uncountable) An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
The way something looks; personal presence
(countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.
(uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
An error.
(also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
A mistaken belief, a wrong idea.
Belief.
Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness.
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
(uncountable) The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
(countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
British standard spelling of specter.
(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.
The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
(sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
(uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
(countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
(architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
(uncountable) The state of being unreal.
A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]
British standard spelling of pretense.
Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.
The quality of being illusive.
The state of being actual or real; realness.
The performance of magic tricks.
(uncommon) Unreality.
(countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
A crafty but underhanded deception.
Tending to create an illusion.
(N)
the second album from the British progressive metal band To-Mera.
An incorrect perception.
The quality of being illusory.
The quality of being apparent; apparentness.
The state or quality of being unreal.
(rare) The act of eluding.
The state of being invulnerable.
(uncountable) The quality of being artificial or produced unnaturally.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
The property of being separate.
(psychology) Delusional.
A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
The state of being invisible.
The state of being permanent.
Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
tending to delude
True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.
The result or outcome of a cause.
The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.
Quality of being lifelike.
The state or quality of being solid.
Something that enchants; a magical spell.
One who works with illusion or sleight of hand.
The condition of being spectacular.
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
Unrealisticness.
The quality of forming a unified whole.
Lack of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind.
The property of being limitless: infiniteness, boundlessness.