1) Aspect of paranoia 2) Belief 3) False belief 4) False impression 5) It may be one of grandeur 6) Mental state 7) Misapprehension 8) Misconception 9) Mistaken opinion 10) Pipe dream 11) Psychological state 12) Psychotic belief 13) Self-deception 14) The act of deluding 15) The state of being deluded
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1) Chimera 2) Disorientation 3) Fallacy 4) Hallucination 5) Mayoi 6) Mirage 7) Misunderstanding 8) Vision 9) Will o `the wisp 10) Zoanthropy
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• (n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. • (n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. • (n.) The state of being deluded or misled.
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A false belief, seen most often in psychosis (for example schizophrenia). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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(dә-loo´zhәn) a false belief that is firmly maintained in spite of incontrovertible and obvious proof to the contrary and in spite of the fact that other members of the culture do not share the belief. adj., delu´sional., adj.
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A fixed, false belief.
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a false, fixed, idiosyncratic belief, not substantiated by sensory or objective evidence.
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A positive symptom of schizophrenia which manifests as a fixed belief that has no basis in reality a
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De·lu'sion noun [ Latin
delusio , from
deludere . See
Delude .]
1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled.
3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belie...
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Delusion: A false personal belief that is not subject to reason or contradictory evidence and is not explained by a person's usual cultural and religious concepts (so that, for example, it is not an article of faith). A delusion may be firmly maintained in the face of incontrovertible evidence that it is false. Delusions are a frequent feature of s...
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An incorrect belief which is out of keeping with the person's cultural context, intelligence and social background and which is held with unshakeable conviction.
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A fixed idea held by the patient in variance to those ideas and beliefs held by the majority.
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delusion (di LOO zhuhn) 1. A false idea, belief, or opinion that is contrary to fact or reality, resulting from deception; a misconception: 'He labored under the delusion that he would be successful.' 2. A mental disorder; a false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence; especially, as a mental disorder: 'He had delusions of p...
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A belief that is false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, a false belief strongly held in spite of evidence that it is not true, especially as a symptom of a mental illness.
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A fixed, false belief, for example that someone is listening to your phone calls or trying to kill you. One of the symptoms of psychosis.
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illusion noun the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
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(Lat. de + ludere, to play) Erroneous or non-veridical cognition. The term is properly restricted to perception, memory and other non-inferential forms of knowledge but is at times extended to include inferential beliefs and theories. See Veridical. The two principal types of delusion are (a) illusion or partially delusive cognition, e.g. the ordin...
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A false belief that persists even when a person has evidence that the belief is not true.
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A false idea that is firmly believed and strongly maintained in spite of proof or evidence to the contrary.
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A persistent belief that an event or situation is true even though it may be illogical. It is often based on fact or a distortion of facts.
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an act or instance of deluding. · the state of being deluded. · a false belief or opinion: delusions of grandeur. · a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion.
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an erroneous belief held in the face of contrary evidence
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[NAEP glossary] a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
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a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
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[Literary terms] deception by creating illusory ideas
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