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Lunacy vs Delusion - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between lunacy and delusion

is that lunacy is the state of being mad, insanity while delusion is a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.

lunacy

English

Noun

  • (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
  • # a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
  • # insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
  • Something deeply misguided.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being mad) insanity

    Derived terms

    * lunatic

    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.
  • * {{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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