Delusion vs Blunder - What's the difference?

Delusion is a related term of blunder.

As nouns the difference between delusion and blunder

is that delusion is a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts while blunder is a clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

As a verb blunder is

to make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

delusion

English

(wikipedia 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

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blunder

English

(wikipedia blunder)

Noun

(en noun)

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

Synonyms

* (error) blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko

Verb

(en verb)

To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

to blunder in preparing a medical prescription

To move blindly or clumsily.

* Goldsmith

I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.

* Dryden

blunders on, and staggers every pace

To cause to make a mistake.

* Ditton

To blunder an adversary.

To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

* Stillingfleet

He blunders and confounds all these together.

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