Phrase Hound found 25 phrases and 1 compound words that contain illusions. The most common are listed below. Open illusions in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 25
- comparative illusionsplural of comparative illusion: A kind of comparative sentence that superficially seems acceptable but actually has no clear meaning. Example: "More people have been to Russia than I have."
- optical illusionsplural of optical illusion: An image that is visually deceptive or misleading.
- frequency illusionsplural of frequency illusion: A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency.
- watercolor illusionsplural of watercolor illusion: An 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.
- waterfall illusionsplural of waterfall illusion: 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.
- introspection illusionsplural of introspection illusion: A 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.
- barber pole illusionsplural of barber pole illusion: An 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 …
- flash-lag illusionsplural of flash-lag illusion: A visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location are perceived to be displaced from one another.
- Pinocchio illusionsplural of Pinocchio illusion: The illusion of proprioception that one's nose is growing longer.
- Hering illusionsplural of Hering illusion: An optical illusion in which two straight and parallel lines presented in front of a radial (spoked) background appear to be bowed outwards.
- coffer illusionsplural of coffer illusion: An optical illusion in which an arrangement of horizontal and vertical bars of various lengths may be viewed as either a series of rectangles or a series of circles.
- Jastrow illusionsplural of Jastrow illusion: An optical illusion in which two adjacent identical curved shapes appear to be of different sizes.
- Ehrenstein illusionsplural of Ehrenstein illusion: An optical illusion in which the sides of a square placed inside a pattern of concentric circles take an apparent curved shape.
- Zoellner illusionsplural of Zoellner illusion: An optical illusion in which parallel lines are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections.
- Ebbinghaus illusionsplural of Ebbinghaus illusion: An optical illusion whereby a disk appears smaller if surrounded by larger disks than if by smaller.
- café wall illusionsplural of café wall illusion: An 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.
- Cornsweet illusionsplural of Cornsweet illusion: An optical illusion where an edge between regions of the same shade causes them to be perceived as different shades.
- Delboeuf illusionsplural of Delboeuf illusion: An optical illusion of relative size perception, usually illustrated by two discs of identical size, one of which is surrounded by a ring.
- Müller-Lyer illusionsplural of Müller-Lyer illusion: An optical illusion consisting of a stylized arrow whose midpoint appears to be closer to the tail end.
- Oppel-Kundt illusionsplural of Oppel-Kundt illusion: An optical illusion that occurs when comparing the sizes of filled and unfilled parts of an image.
- Poggendorff illusionsplural of Poggendorff illusion: An optical illusion involving the misperception of the position of one segment of a transverse line that has been interrupted by the contour of an intervening structure.
- Ponzo illusionsplural of Ponzo illusion: An optical illusion whereby a horizontal bar looks wider when farther up a picture of railroad tracks than when lower.
- somatogravic illusionsplural of somatogravic illusion: An illusory perception of one's pitch angle, due to the effects of linear acceleration on the vestibular system of the inner ear.
- White's illusionsplural of White's illusion: A brightness illusion in which, when certain stripes of a black-and-white grating are replaced by gray rectangles, the brightness of the rectangles appears to be closer to the brightness of the top and bottom …
- Zöllner illusionsplural of Zöllner illusion: An optical illusion in which parallel lines are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections.
Compound words 1
- disillusionsplural of disillusion: To free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.