mirage (n.)

• apparition
• appearance
• bafflement
• balk
• befooling
• blow
• buffet
• circumvention
• comedown
• dash
• deception
• deceptiveness
• defeat
• delusion
• disappointment
• discomfiture
• disillusionment
• dissatisfaction
• dupery
• entanglement
• entrapment
• failure
• fallaciousness
• fallacy
• falseness
• fiasco
• figure
• fizzle
• flimflam
• foiling
• fooling
• form
• frustration
• hallucination
• illusion
• image
• letdown
• looming
• phantasm
• phantom
• phenomenon
• presence
• self-deception
• setback
• shape
• subterfuge
• tantalization
• tease
• trickiness
• victimization
• vision