illusory
12
7.0
- adjective
- /ɪˈluːsəri/
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ilusorio
- Fame, prestige, and public honor are in themselves illusory products of imitative desire.
- selfhood is illusory
- the illusory nature
- illusory game
But space is kind of illusory from this perspective, so he says.
- But space is kind of illusory from this perspective, so he says.
- Treasury bond strips and hedging them with a short Treasury bond position, Jed was able to book immediate illusory profits.
- Because I think this will all tie in and show people that the sort of Cartesian duality of body and mind is really illusory.
- with a mind pattern and so you are strengthening an illusory identity
- It's, it's simplified and it's sort of illusory.
- I, I, I think a better term is real and real and illusory are comparative terms.
- The the psychic weight of those interactions is somewhat illusory in my experience.
- This is why sages from all traditions speak of this realm of form is ultimately illusory.
- You know, the more you take away, the less there is there, but it's less in a, in a sort of illusory sense, right?
Examples
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Florida has been subject to illusory excess and imaginative marketing ploys that long preceded Disney.
Academic text (2017) -
She realized that her hopes of success were merely illusory and not based in reality.
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But space is kind of illusory from this perspective, so he says.
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We are finally getting to the real heart of the illusory nature of this rivalry.
Academic text (1993) -
The self or ego is an illusory appearance within it.
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It's not simply that if it happened, we would quite easily be led to throw away our liberties and our values for some illusory security.
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The sense of illusion arises instead from the less obvious illusory nature of human desire and its object.
Academic text (1993) -
Religion, like opium, provides a happiness, but an illusory one, since the real conditions of oppression remain.
Academic text (1990) -
The first iteration of the scene serves to depict the illusory synchronization of the nation's story with the personal one.
Academic text (2017) -
Socrates recognized what every philosopher and religion, for that matter in the history of the world, from Plato to Aristotle from Epicurus to the Stoics from the Judeo-Christians to the Buddhists have all observed which is that the balance needed for a happy life is illusory.
Synonyms
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4.2
Not real, like something from a dream
3
4.7
Appearing to be true when it is not
2
7.7
Appearing real but trying to trick your mind
1
9.9
Looking like a ghost and seeming unreal
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9.4
Appearing real when it is not
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8.2
Appearing real but not actually true
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5.5
Ideas or images that exist only in the mind and are not real
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9.1
Giving a false idea that makes people believe something untrue
Seeming sincere but actually shallow
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Being unreal and like a dream
Appears like a ghost, not solid or easy to see
Antonyms
How Illusory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word illusory comes from the Latin illudere, from the root ludere meaning 'to play'. So an illusory thing is like a 'play' or trick on your senses that seems real but is not.