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optical delusion

optical delusion noun: a vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.

Noun

optical delusion (plural optical delusions)

  1. (dated) A vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.
    • I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was the victim of some hallucination, or that the refraction from the intense light produced an optical delusion; and, as I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of optical delusion

pluraloptical delusions

Questions about optical delusion

What does optical delusion mean?
Optical delusion means a vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.
What part of speech is optical delusion?
Optical delusion is a noun.
What is the plural of optical delusion?
The plural of optical delusion is optical delusions.

Words near optical delusion in the dictionary

  1. optical axis
  2. optical black hole
  3. optical black holes
  4. optical character recognition
  5. optical coherence tomography
  6. optical delusion
  7. optical delusions
  8. optical depth
  9. optical disc
  10. optical disc drive
  11. optical disc drives

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