Imaginary vs Illusion - What's the difference?
imaginary | illusion |
existing only in the imagination
* Addison
(mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Imagination; fancy.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
(mathematics) An imaginary quantity.
(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
* 2002 , (The Flaming Lips),
(countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
(countable) A magician’s trick.
(uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
As nouns the difference between imaginary and illusion
is that imaginary is imagination; fancy while illusion is .As an adjective imaginary
is existing only in the imagination.imaginary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
Derived terms
* imaginarily * imaginarinessNoun
(imaginaries)- By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
External links
* (Imaginary number)illusion
English
(wikipedia illusion)Noun
- We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.
- Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.
- You realize the sun don't go down it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.
- Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.