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Delusion

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Delusion meaning

A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts. | The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody. | That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

Example sentences (20)

His delusion is quickly deduced by the main character, who is himself under the delusion that he is Sherlock Holmes.

There is a distinction between reality and delusion that is important to make when assessing a patient and so the consideration of comparative realities can mislead and distract from the importance of a patient's delusion to a diagnostic decision.

They replied that if he labours under such partial delusion only, and is not in other respects insane, "he must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real".

Affirmation, particularly when it comes to kids who claim to be transgender, nonbinary, or any other made-up gender, feeds a delusion and doesn’t fix the actual mental issues that the child has going on.

Alice’s hamstrung agony mushrooms until one particular delusion encourages her to seize upon the redemptive power of narrative.

Answers to these "why" questions come more easily if we dispense with the self-flattering delusion that we are a rational, enlightened, people prone to scientific thought.

As western society melts down in the heat of such delusion which has cascaded into catagoric decline, our “enemies” are scared to death that they will be forced to comply.

Because buried in delusion is the hope that, despite all the odds and evidence to the contrary, things might just go your way.

Defining a delusion as a belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence requires that we have a shared understanding of what is “truth” and how it is determined.

Delusion has run rampant.

Grace has the confidence and the delusion of an entire top-tier level cast combined.

If he is operating under the transgenderism worldview, one that encourages the delusion that your inner person and physical body don’t match, then he would be a woman.

If you have a propensity for delusion you reside in delululand.

In fact, the Woke Nazis at CNN will accuse anyone who refuses to participate in a transsexual’s delusion of being transphobic.

It’s a young woman, and she talked about the beginning of a kind of depression, a delusion.

Lastly, biofuels have to be the poster child for policy via ideological self-delusion.

Lies, distortion, delusion or simply greed - what drives Russian WAGNER mercenaries to wage Russia's barbaric war against Ukraine.

Outside of fans from Dallas, they get a pass, but those parasite cowboy fans from NY, Philly, California… theyre not “diehard” when theyre in a constant state of delusion, telling anyone that will listen how good the cowboys are regardless of reality.

Secondly, I soon learnt that delusion is a gracious thief, especially in sales, which is something to always be remembered if you’re going to have a successful sales pipeline!

So when that happened, again, you just kind of have to be realistic with yourself and not live in the delusion of like, I’m here.