illusion

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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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
• (General American) enPR: ĭ-lo͞o'zhən, IPA^(key): [ɪˈluː.ʒən]
• (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /ɪˈl(j)uːzj(ə)n/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

illusion (countable and uncountable, plural illusions)

1. (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.

   • 2002, “Do You Realize??”, performed by The Flaming Lips:

     You realize the sun don't go down it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.

2. (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.

   Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.

3. (countable) A magician’s trick.
4. (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.

Synonyms

• (that seems to be something it is not): mirage, phantom
• (a belief in something untrue; the state of being misled): delusion
• (a belief in something untrue): misapprehension, misbelief, misconception

Derived terms

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

Translations

anything that seems to be something that it is not

Albanian: iluzion (sq) m, ëndërrim (sq) m Arabic: هَلْوَسَة (ar) f (halwasa), وَهْم m (wahm), اِنْخِدَاع m (inḵidāʕ), خَيَال (ar) (ḵayāl) Armenian: պատրանք (hy) (patrankʻ) Azerbaijani: illüziya, xəyal (az) Basque: irudipen, ameskeria (eu), itxaropen (eu) Belarusian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija) Bengali: বিভ্রম (bn) (bibhrom) Bulgarian: илю́зия (bg) f (iljúzija) Burmese: မာယာ (my) (maya) 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, illusioon 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: אַשְׁלָיָה (he) f (ashlayá) Hindi: भ्रम (hi) (bhram), विभ्रम (hi) m (vibhram), माया (hi) f (māyā) Hungarian: illúzió (hu) Icelandic: blekking (is) f Ido: iluziono (io) Indonesian: ilusi (id) Irish: seachmall m Italian: illusione (it) f Japanese: 幻覚 (ja) (げんかく, genkaku), 幻想 (ja) (げんそう, gensō) Kazakh: иллюзия (illüziä), елес (eles) Korean: 환각(幻覺) (ko) (hwan'gak), 환상(幻想) (ko) (hwansang) Kyrgyz: иллюзия (illyuziya) Lao: ພາບລວງຕາ (phāp lūang tā) Latvian: acu māns m, ilūzija f Ligurian: illüziùn Lithuanian: iliuzija f Macedonian: илу́зија f (ilúzija), фатаморга́на f (fatamorgána), ма́мка f (mámka), при́вид m (prívid) Malay: ilusi Malayalam: മിഥ്യാബോധം (mithyābōdhaṁ) Maltese: illużjoni Maori: pohewa, whakahewa Norwegian: Bokmål: illusjon m Nynorsk: illusjon m Persian: Iranian Persian: وَهْم (vahm), خِیال (xiyâl) Polish: złudzenie (pl) n, iluzja (pl) f, ułuda Portuguese: ilusão (pt) f Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਭਰਮ m (bharam) Romanian: iluzie (ro) f Russian: иллю́зия (ru) f (illjúzija), наважде́ние (ru) n (navaždénije) Sanskrit: माया (sa) f (māyā) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ѝлӯзија f, о̏псена f Roman: ìlūzija (sh) f, ȍpsena (sh) f Slovak: ilúzia f Slovene: iluzija (sl) f Spanish: ilusión (es) f Swedish: illusion (sv) c, synvilla (sv) c Tagalog: tagimpan, panagimpan Tajik: ваҳм (vahm), хаёл (xayol), иллюзия (illyuziya) Thai: ภาพลวงตา (th) (pâap-luuang-dtaa) Turkish: yanılsama (tr), yanılgı (tr), illüzyon (tr) Turkmen: illýuziýa Ukrainian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija) Urdu: وَہْم m (vahm), فَریب m (fareb) Uzbek: illyuziya (uz), vahm (uz), xayol (uz) Vietnamese: ảo tưởng (vi) Welsh: rhith f Yiddish: אילוזיע f (iluzye)

belief in something that is in fact not true

Belarusian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija) Bulgarian: илю́зия (bg) f (iljúzija) Chinese: Mandarin: 幻想 (zh) (huànxiǎng), 幻覺 / 幻觉 (zh) (huànjué) Danish: illusion c Dutch: illusie (nl) f Finnish: harhakuvitelma (fi), harhaluulo (fi), harha (fi), harhausko Georgian: ილუზია (iluzia) German: Illusion (de) f Greek: ψευδαίσθηση (el) f (psevdaísthisi), πλάνη (el) f (pláni) Japanese: 幻想 (ja) (げんそう, gensō) Korean: 환상(幻想) (ko) (hwansang) Macedonian: при́вид m (prívid) Norwegian: Bokmål: illusjon m Nynorsk: illusjon m Polish: iluzja (pl) f, ułuda f Russian: иллю́зия (ru) f (illjúzija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ѝлӯзија f, о̏псена f Roman: ìlūzija (sh) f, ȍpsena (sh) f Swedish: illusion (sv) c, förvillelse (sv) c Ukrainian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija)

magician's trick

Belarusian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija) Bulgarian: илю́зия (bg) f (iljúzija) Danish: illusion c Dutch: illusie (nl) f, truuk (nl) m, trick (nl) m Estonian: võlutrikk, illusioon Finnish: illuusio (fi), taikatemppu (fi) French: illusion (fr) f Georgian: ილუზიონი (iluzioni) Greek: κόπλο n (kóplo) Hebrew: אַשְׁלָיָה (he) f (ashlayá) Japanese: 手品 (ja) (てじな, tejina) Latin: praestīgiae f pl Macedonian: илу́зија f (ilúzija) Polish: iluzja (pl) Portuguese: truque de mágica Russian: иллю́зия (ru) f (illjúzija) Swedish: illusion (sv) c, trick (sv) n Ukrainian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija)

state of being misled or deceived

Belarusian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija) Bulgarian: илю́зия (bg) f (iljúzija) Macedonian: илу́зија f (ilúzija) Russian: иллю́зия (ru) f (illjúzija), обма́н (ru) m (obmán) Swedish: (please verify) illusion (sv) c Ukrainian: ілю́зія f (iljúzija)

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Icelandic: (please verify) tálvon (is) f

Danish

Etymology

From French illusion, from Latin illūsio.

Noun

illusion c (singular definite illusionen, plural indefinite illusioner)

1. illusion

Inflection

Declension of illusion

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	illusion	illusionen	illusioner	illusionerne
genitive	illusions	illusionens	illusioners	illusionernes

Further reading

• “illusion” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin illusiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ly.zjɔ̃/, /il.ly.zjɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: illusions

Noun

illusion f (plural illusions)

1. illusion

Derived terms

• illusion d'optique

Related terms

• illusoire
• illusoirement

Descendants

• → Danish: illusion

Further reading

• “illusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪlɵˈɧuːn/

• Audio:

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Noun

illusion c

1. an illusion

Declension

Declension of illusion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	illusion	illusions
	definite	illusionen	illusionens
plural	indefinite	illusioner	illusioners
	definite	illusionerna	illusionernas

Derived terms

• illusionist

Related terms

• illusorisk

See also

• illustration
• illustrera
• synvilla
• trick

References

• illusion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• illusion in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• illusion in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)