Word Type

Noun

The word "illusion" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

yokohama

Capable Of

appear real fool eye

Derived Terms

Cornsweet illusion Delboeuf illusion Ebbinghaus illusion Ehrenstein illusion Hering illusion Jastrow illusion Müller-Lyer illusion Oppel-Kundt illusion Orbison illusion Pac-Man illusion Pinocchio illusion Poggendorff illusion Ponzo illusion Thatcher illusion White's illusion Wundt illusion Zoellner illusion Zöllner illusion argument from illusion barber pole illusion café wall illusion clustering illusion coffer illusion comparative illusion cutaneous rabbit illusion disillusion end-of-history illusion flash-lag illusion frequency illusion illusion cake illusionable illusional illusionary illusioned illusionette illusionism illusionist illusionistic illusionless illusionlike illusory introspection illusion irradiation illusion leaning tower illusion money illusion moon illusion optical illusion reillusion somatogravic illusion stepping feet illusion stopped clock illusion under the illusion watercolor illusion waterfall illusion

Distinct From

real

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

appearance deceit deception dissembling dissimulation misconception performance

Type Of (IsA)

appearance company misconception

Part Of

magic

Related Terms

desert hallucination image magic magic trick magician may may seem mirage misapprehension not pretend pretend image real seem trick visual visual trick

Synonym Network

delusion magic trick misapprehension

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.