illusion (n.)
- aberrancy
- aberration
- air
- apparition
- appearance
- bedevilment
- befooling
- bewitchery
- bewitchment
- brainchild
- bubble
- captivation
- chimera
- circumvention
- deception
- deceptiveness
- defectiveness
- delirium
- delusion
- distortion
- dream
- dupery
- enchantment
- entanglement
- entrancement
- entrapment
- errancy
- erroneousness
- error
- ether
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- fancy
- fantasy
- fascination
- fault
- faultiness
- fiction
- figment
- flaw
- flimflam
- fooling
- hallucination
- hamartia
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- imagery
- imagination
- invention
- maggot
- make-believe
- maya
- mirage
- misapplication
- misapprehension
- misconception
- misconstruction
- misfeasance
- misinterpretation
- mist
- mistake
- myth
- obsession
- perversion
- phantasm
- phantasmagoria
- phantom
- pipe
- possession
- rainbow
- romance
- self-contradiction
- self-deception
- semblance
- shadow
- sin
- sinfulness
- smoke
- spirit
- subterfuge
- trickiness
- trip
- unorthodoxy
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- vapor
- victimization
- vision
- whim
- whimsy
- witchery
- wrong
- wrongness
illusion (v.)
This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.
