Synonym: deception, delusion, misconception, trick. Antonym: disillusion. Similar words: allusion, conclusion, in conclusion, draw a conclusion, illustrate, fill up, exclusive, exclusively. Meaning: [ɪ'luːʒn] 
n. 1. an erroneous mental representation 2. something many people believe that is false 3. the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas 4. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.
n. 1. an erroneous mental representation 2. something many people believe that is false 3. the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas 4. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers. 
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61. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud 
62. Now she realizes that she has been under an illusion as to his capacity to feel.
63. But nobody should be under the illusion that it is likely to solve any problems.
64. Capitalists are smart enough not to suffer from money illusion.
65. These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.
66. Farther west is the Hudson River, creating the illusion that ocean liners occasionally sail down the street.
67. For once, the optical illusion experienced by sailors leaving port seemed apt.
68. It came out regularly, and an illusion grew that the process was almost automatic.
69. It needed gobs of honey or molasses along with a big wad of butter to create the illusion of good eating.
70. The gradualism of concession merely shores up the essentials of the established system by creating an illusion as to the possibilities of change.
71. The trick involved in any attempt to create an illusion of three dimensions when only two are present is well known.
72. This is an optical illusion in which the diagram of a skeleton cube appears to the observer in either of two orientations.
73. So we entertain the illusion of hearing much of the dialogue as if it were second-hand.
74. As the road slithers around Milkovici and into the regional capital of Mostar the illusion is crushed under the weight of ruins.
75. But there were many who were under no illusion that the victory had been won and the tide had turned.
76. The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
77. She isn't particularly tall, but her upright posture gives an illusion of height.
78. Informal resistance against formal organisation gives the illusion of regaining control.
79. Even better, the full Coliseum will not be an optical illusion.
80. You are given the illusion you can do it without an expenditure of a lot of your own time.
81. Nor am I under the illusion that I alone am free of illusion.
82. Painted with the intensity of fresco, they haunt the memory, loaded with illusion and nostalgia.
83. But it demonstrates something much more astonishing: that in a sense all matter is illusion!
84. What illusion was it that she bridged between this world and that?
85. He indicated that creating an illusion of being honest, compassionate, and generous is important to gaining and maintaining power.
86. Except that there in no real thing: it creates illusion.
87. Try tiaras and crowns and always wear hair below your jawline to create the illusion of length.
88. Macroconsolidation within organizations provides an ideal breeding ground for insulation, isolation,[www.Sentencedict.com] and illusion.
89. Alcohol gives some people the illusion of being witty and confident.
90. But the illusion is soon shattered ... the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew.
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