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Plural of illusion

regular plural

The plural of illusion is illusions.

Forms of illusion

Singularillusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
Pluralillusions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Illusions in a sentence

  • The magician had the audience on a string with his fascinating illusions.From the entry on a string
  • The magus is manipulative, mendacious, a master of illusions and mind games.2026, Sebastian Mallaby, chapter 2, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry mind game
  • What these circumstances do is to give me something like illusions, not unclear perceptions.2015, Guy Sircello ·, New Theory of Beauty, page 133. From the entry unclearly
  • No illusions had he of a chastened German spirit, a clarified German mind, an unbrutalized German heart.2008, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat. From the entry unbrutalized
  • I finally abandoned any lingering illusions I had had that Ministry work was a soft touch.1998, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry soft touch

Meaning of illusion

  1. noun A distortion of sensory perception where real stimuli lead to a false or misleading impression of reality.
  2. noun A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
  3. noun A magician’s trick.

Full definition of illusion

Questions about the plural of illusion

What is the plural of illusion?
The plural of illusion is illusions.
Is illusion countable?
Illusion is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illusion (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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