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