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English
Etymology
From Old French illusion, from Latin illūsiō, from illūdere, from in- (“at, upon”) + lūdere (“to play, mock, trick”). Displaced native Old English dwimmer.
Pronunciation
Noun
illusion (countable and uncountable, plural illusions)
- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.
Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
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Translations
anything that seems to be something that it is not
- Arabic: هَلْوَسَة (ar) f (halwasa), وَهْم m (wahm), اِنْخِدَاع m (inḵidāʕ)
- Armenian: պատրանք (hy) (patrankʻ)
- Basque: irudipen, ameskeria (eu), itxaropen (eu)
- Bulgarian: илюзия (bg) f (iljuzija)
- Catalan: il·lusió (ca) f, (Algherese) illusió
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 幻覺/幻觉 (zh) (huànjué), 幻想 (zh) (huànxiǎng)
- Czech: iluze (cs) f
- Danish: illusion c
- Dutch: illusie (nl) f, zinsbegoocheling (nl) f
- Esperanto: iluzio
- Estonian: näiline
- Finnish: illuusio (fi), havaintoharha, harha (fi), harhanäky, näköharha (fi)
- French: illusion (fr) f
- Georgian: ილუზია (iluzia)
- German: Illusion (de) f, Wahnvorstellung (de) f, Sinnestäuschung f
- Greek: ψευδαίσθηση (el) f (psevdaísthisi)
- Hebrew: אשליה (he) f (ashlaya)
- Hindi: भ्रम (hi) (bhram)
- Hungarian: illúzió (hu)
- Ido: iluziono (io)
- Indonesian: ilusi (id)
- Italian: illusione (it) f
- Japanese: 幻覚 (ja) (げんかく, genkaku), 幻想 (ja) (げんそう, gensō)
- Korean: 환각(幻覺) (ko) (hwan'gak), 환상 (ko) (hwansang)
- Latvian: acu māns m
- Ligurian: illüziùn
- Lithuanian: iliuzija f
- Macedonian: илу́зија f (ilúzija), фатаморга́на f (fatamorgána), ма́мка f (mámka), при́вид m (prívid)
- Malayalam: മിഥ്യാബോധം (mithyābōdhaṁ)
- Maltese: illużjoni
- Maori: pohewa, whakahewa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: illusjon m
- Nynorsk: illusjon m
- Persian: وهم (fa) (vahm)
- Polish: złudzenie (pl) n, iluzja (pl) f, ułuda
- Portuguese: ilusão (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਭਰਮ m (bharam)
- Romanian: iluzie (ro) f
- Russian: иллю́зия (ru) f (illjúzija), наважде́ние (ru) n (navaždénije)
- Sanskrit: माया (sa) f (māyā)
- Serbo-Croatian: opsena (sh) f
- Slovak: ilúzia f
- Slovene: iluzija (sl) f
- Spanish: ilusión (es) f
- Swedish: illusion (sv) c, synvilla (sv) c
- Tagalog: tagimpan, panagimpan
- Thai: ภาพลวงตา (th) (paa pluang dtaa)
- Turkish: yanılsama (tr), yanılgı (tr)
- Welsh: rhith f
- Yiddish: אילוזיע f (iluzye)
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belief in something that is in fact not true
state of being misled or deceived
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Danish
Etymology
From French illusion, from Latin illūsio.
Noun
illusion c (singular definite illusionen, plural indefinite illusioner)
- illusion
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin illusiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
illusion f (plural illusions)
- illusion
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Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
illusion c
- an illusion
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