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Delusion vs Apparition - What's the difference?

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Delusion is a related term of apparition.


As nouns the difference between delusion and apparition

is that delusion is a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts while apparition is an act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

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.
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  • , 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

    apparition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
  • The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. – .
    The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. – .
  • The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
  • Which apparition , it seems, was you. – Tatler.
  • An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
  • The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition. – .
    I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition .
  • (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured;—opposed to occultation.
  • Synonyms

    * (act of becoming visible) appearance * (a preternatural appearance) vision * See also