Phrase Hound found 49 phrases and 13 compound words that contain illusion. The most common are listed below. Open illusion in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 49
- optical illusionAn image that is visually deceptive or misleading.
- stopped clock illusionAn instance of chronostasis in which the second hand of an analog clock appears to stay still for longer than normal when looking at it for the first time.
- under the illusionHaving a mistaken belief about something.
- grand illusionThe numerous economic, political, social, and societal institutions, including common beliefs and ideological frameworks, that maintain the "illusion" of a stable and modern society under capitalism.
- café wall illusionAn optical illusion in which the parallel straight dividing lines between staggered rows with alternating dark and light bricks appear to be sloped rather than parallel.
- Thatcher illusionThe optical illusion resulting from the Thatcher effect.
- end-of-history illusionThe psychological illusion by which people tend to believe that their personalities and preferences have reached a more or less stable state, despite recognising that these things have undergone significant change in the past.
- money illusionThe cognitive bias that leads people to think of money in nominal rather than real terms, mistaking its face value for its purchasing power at some point in time.
- comparative illusionA kind of comparative sentence that superficially seems acceptable but actually has no clear meaning. Example: "More people have been to Russia than I have."
- frequency illusionSynonym of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency.
- moon illusionThe optical illusion whereby the moon looks larger when it is low in the sky than otherwise.
- clustering illusionThe tendency to erroneously perceive random streaks and clusters arising in small samples from random distributions as being non-random.
- waterfall illusionSynonym of waterfall effect: A visual illusion (a motion aftereffect), where a stationary scene appears to move in the opposite direction to a previously observed, continuously moving stimulus, similar to a waterfall.
- watercolor illusionAn optical illusion in which a white area takes on a pale tint of a thin, bright, intensely colored polygon surrounding it if the coloured polygon is itself surrounded by a thin, darker border.
- irradiation illusionAn optical illusion in which a light area of the visual field looks larger than an otherwise identical dark area.
- argument from illusionAn argument for the existence of sense-data, and thus a criticism of direct realism, according to which what we perceive (such as a stick that looks bent because it is viewed underwater) is distinct from the actual thing perceived (the …
- barber pole illusionAn optical illusion where, when a diagonally striped pole is rotated around its vertical axis (horizontally), it appears as though the stripes are moving in the direction of its vertical axis (downwards in the case of the animation to the …
- Pac-Man illusionSynonym of lilac chaser: An optical illusion involving 12 pink blurred discs arranged in a circle around a small black, central cross on a grey background. The brief disappearance of each disc in turn causes the observer to see a gap …
- stepping feet illusionAn optical illusion of motion perception involving two "buses" (rectangles), one blue and one yellow, moving horizontally across a "street" of black and white stripes. Although both buses move at a constant speed, their perceived speed …
- flash-lag illusionSynonym of flash-lag effect: A visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location are perceived to be displaced from one another.
- leaning tower illusionAn optical illusion where, given a pair of identical images of an object rising in perspective, the one on the right appears to be leaning more.
- Orbison illusionAn optical illusion consisting of a two-dimensional figure superimposed over a background of radial lines or concentric circles, resulting in apparent distortion of both the figure and its background.
- introspection illusionA cognitive bias by which people wrongly think that they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating other people's introspections as unreliable.
- cutaneous rabbit illusionA tactile illusion where tapping separate regions of a person's skin in rapid succession (e.g. the elbow and the forearm) gives the impression of sequential taps "hopping" from one point to the next, even though the intermediate points …
- Hering illusionAn optical illusion in which two straight and parallel lines presented in front of a radial (spoked) background appear to be bowed outwards.
Compound words 13
- disillusionmentA feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.
- disillusionTo free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.
- illusionisticTending to create an illusion.
- disillusionizeTo disillusion, disabuse, free from illusion.
- illusionableLiable to illusion; easily duped or convinced
- illusionlessDevoid of illusions.
- illusionlikeResembling or characteristic of an illusion.
- reillusionTo restore a false belief.
- illusionistOne who works with illusion or sleight of hand.
- illusionaryIllusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.