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Imposture vs Delusion - What's the difference?

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Imposture is a related term of delusion.


As nouns the difference between imposture and delusion

is that imposture is the act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating while delusion is a false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.

imposture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

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    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

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    * unsoiled

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