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Illusory vs Allusory - What's the difference?

illusory | allusory |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal
  • Enron's profits were all illusory .

    allusory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • allusive; making allusion
  • * William Warburton
  • 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 .