chimera (n.)
- apparition
- autism
- brainchild
- bubble
- daydream
- deception
- delirium
- delusion
- dream
- dreamland
- dreamworld
- fancy
- fantasy
- fiction
- figment
- hallucination
- illusion
- imagery
- imagination
- invention
- maggot
- make-believe
- misconception
- mosaic
- myth
- phantasm
- phantom
- pipe
- rainbow
- romance
- self-deceit
- self-deception
- trick
- trip
- utopia
- vapor
- vision
- whim
- whimsy
What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!
