Illusory vs Allusory - What's the difference?
illusory | allusory |
Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal
allusive; making allusion
* William Warburton
As adjectives the difference between illusory and allusory
is that illusory is resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal while allusory is allusive; making allusion.illusory
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Enron's profits were all illusory .
allusory
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Adjective
(en adjective)- But those Sects, who oppose the doctrine of a real redemption, have always striven to evade the notion of a real sacrifice''; as that on which the doctrine of ''Redemption'' is founded; upon pretence, that the scripture expressions of Christ's ''sacrifice were only figurative and allusory .