Delusion vs Deluded - What's the difference?
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As a noun delusion is a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts. As an adjective deluded is being affected by delusions. As a verb deluded is ( delude).
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delusion Noun
( en noun)
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The state of being deluded or misled.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=William L. Shirer
, title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
, page=835
, publisher=Simon & Schuster
, location=New York
, isbn=0-671-72869-5
, id=LCCN 81101072
, passage=Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.}}
( Webster 1913)
Derived terms
* delusion of grandeur
Anagrams
* unsoiled
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deluded English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Being affected by delusions.
- He was deluded to think that she cared in the slightest.
Verb
(head)
(delude)
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