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A misleading of the mind.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Noun : delusions of grandeur. ,a paranoid delusion
  • Dr Mzimela said Mr Niehaus was "intoxicated with the wine we call delusions of self-importance".
  • Closed-minded people aggressively protect their ideology-based delusions from the influences of reality or other ideas.
  • You seem to entertain delusions about the world's overpopulation problem: "we could fit the entire population of the WORLD in Texas ..."
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