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Illusion vs Miracle - What's the difference?

illusion | miracle |

As nouns the difference between illusion and miracle

is that illusion is anything that seems to be something that it is not while miracle is a wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.

illusion

English

(wikipedia illusion)

Noun

  • (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
    • 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.
  • * 2002 , (The Flaming Lips),
    • You realize the sun don't go down it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.
  • (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
    • Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.
  • (countable) A magician’s trick.
  • (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.

    • Synonyms

    * (the state of being deceived or misled) misapprehension

    Derived terms

    * illusionist * illusory * optical illusion * under the illusion that

    See also

    * mirage ----

    miracle

    English

    (wikipedia miracle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.
    • Many religious beliefs are based on miracles .
    An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon.
  • A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.
  • * 1966 November 25, "A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck", in Life , volume 61, number 22, page 13:
    • Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history.
  • * 1993 , Hatch N. Gardner and Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang (Turner Publishing Company), page 78:
    • It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out.
  • * 2003 , Eric Lionel Jones, The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia (Cambridge University Press), page 218:
    • Seen in this light it was a miracle of economic history that Europe was able to undertake so much higher a proportion of its expansion overseas, and secure a massive injection of resources and big markets without a commensurate growth in her numbers.
  • An awesome and exceptional example of something
  • * 1847 , HonorĂ© de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life , page 323:
    • The home of our kings, over which you tread as you pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture.
  • * 2008 , Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning), page 670:
    • It was a miracle' of engineering that made possible, with the cheap electricity the dam generated, another kind of ' miracle : the bizarre, superilluminated city of Las Vegas, Nevada.

    Derived terms

    * miraculous * miraculousness * miraculously

    Anagrams

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