delusion (n.)
- aberrancy
- aberration
- acting
- affectation
- agnosia
- apparition
- appearance
- artifice
- autism
- befooling
- block
- blocking
- bluff
- bubble
- casuistry
- cheat
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- chimera
- circumvention
- color
- coloring
- counterfeit
- daydream
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- defectiveness
- delirium
- disguise
- disorientation
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- distortion
- dream
- dreamland
- dreamworld
- dupery
- entanglement
- entrapment
- equivocation
- errancy
- erroneousness
- error
- facade
- face
- fake
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- fancy
- fantasy
- fault
- faultiness
- feigning
- feint
- figment
- flaw
- flimflam
- fooling
- fraud
- front
- ghost
- gilt
- gloss
- hallucination
- hallucinosis
- hamartia
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- humbug
- illusion
- imposture
- masquerade
- meretriciousness
- mirage
- misapplication
- misconception
- misconstruction
- misfeasance
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- nihilism
- ostentation
- perversion
- phantasm
- phantom
- playacting
- pose
- posing
- posture
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- representation
- ruse
- self-contradiction
- self-deceit
- self-deception
- semblance
- shade
- sham
- show
- simulacrum
- simulation
- sin
- sinfulness
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
- trickiness
- trip
- unorthodoxy
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- vapor
- varnish
- victimization
- vision
- wrong
- wrongness
A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
