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• His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.From the entry wonderful
• All of them are second-raters with delusions of grandeur.From the entry second-rater
• The Capgras delusion is a type of hypoidentification.From the entry hypoidentification
• There are now several stories of people being sucked into ChatGPT-induced delusions, or even “AI psychosis”.2026 April 29, Jamie Bartlett, “Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry AI psychosis
• The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance.2014, Brian Stavely, The Emperor's Blades. From the entry jumped-up
• Manifestations of delusional disorder on the scalp may be psychogenic pseudoeffluvium, delusion of parasitosis, or trichophobia.2010, Ralph M. Trüeb, Desmond J. Tobin, Aging Hair, page 157. From the entry trichophobia
• World War I shattered the gossima delusions of the aristocracy, and the Great Depression humbled the rest.2010, Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz, Everything You Know Is Pong, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry gossima
• A generation-long sequence of mistakes, omissions and delusion was about to receive its come-uppance.2010, Will Hutton, Them And Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society, →ISBN. From the entry come-uppance
• Look at the facts: delusions don't contain information unknown to the deludee.2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story. From the entry deludee
• Is it because we have cast off the delusion of human sanctity?2005, Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry decivilize
• My current favorite is callomania: "the delusion that one is beautiful".2002 February 12, silt, “changelist for a variant I was thinking of producing...”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet). From the entry lexicomane
• Can one by it put away lust, and hate, delusion . . . indiscretion'?1960, Kathāvatthu. From the entry forthleading
• I wonder if that old coot has got what they call 'delusions of grandeur'?"1918, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 190, numbers 35-43, page 109. From the entry coot
• His musical journey, and this is a quote, is “a constant push and pull between self awareness and delusion”.2025 June 13, “Matt Miggz: Drums, Delusion, and Staying True”, in WAVS BLOG. From the entry bar
• The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion.2021 November 21, Charles Hugh Smith, When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons. From the entry artifice
• Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.2021 July 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry scarily
• This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable.2019 May 23, Tony Naylor, “No wonder Jamie’s went bust: Brits have lost their appetite for samey chains”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry samey
• Behavioral features include apathy, reclusivity, anhedonia, depression, delusions, and hallucinations.2010, Michael B. First, Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders. From the entry reclusivity
• Can he really continue playing Ari Gold, the jerk superagent, without getting delusions and landing in ego-disorder rehab?2007 April 6, Virginia Heffernan, “On Gilded Sharks and Loverboys”, in New York Times. From the entry superagent
• But compared to the jagged, snow-covered peaks in the distance, the mountains back east were mud hills with delusions of adequacy.2005, Paul Lucas, Linda A. Lavid, Creatura, page 146. From the entry delusion of adequacy
• Direct evidence on psychotic behavior is the presence of either delusions or hallucinations (without insight into their pathological nature).1995, José A. Valciukas, Forensic Neuropsychology, page 277. From the entry psychotic
• I resurrect this piece as antidote, I hope, to the gripping lies of a cinematic fantasist who suffers delusions of reality.1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6. From the entry fantasist
• What delusions of grandeur went into the naming of them?1991, Angela Carter, Wise Children, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry Melchior
• It is the delusion that others think well of one.1982 October 1, Fred H. Goldner, “Pronoia”, in Social Problems, volume 30, number 1, Berkeley, Calif.: Published by the University of…. From the entry pronoia
• Briefly, the characteristic symptoms that appear in peyotl intoxication are visual hallucinations and delusions, associated with "horror chambers".1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 155. From the entry horror chamber
• At the moment, he is suffering from delusions of adequacy.1951 October 18, Walter Kerr, New York Herald Tribune. From the entry delusion of adequacy
• I am skeptical of becoming of Harbinger, simply because the Traveler will be omnielemental at that point, removing the need for a delusion.2022 February 13, azadeth24, Patient_Insect_4463, “pure speculation here - a lil theory about the upcoming plot that I came up with…. From the entry omnielemental
• A government that thinks it can take on the world with Brexit can’t take back a bereaved teenaged mother with fundamentalist delusions.2019 February 21, Gary Younge, “Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not”, in The Guardian. From the entry obviate
• It may seem somewhat spoilsport to focus in on this negative after another important victory but to ignore it would be delusion.2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport. From the entry spoilsport
• Perhaps the most bizarre of all is Cotard delusion, in which the sufferer believes he is dead and cannot be convinced otherwise.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 81. From the entry Cotard delusion
• Your delusions are Joan of Arcian.2014 January 19, DVH, “God as superhero, or God as answer to the question why”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet). From the entry Joan of Arcian
• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.1994, Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, →ISBN. From the entry speck
• Yudkowsky said OpenAI might have primed ChatGPT to entertain the delusions of users by optimizing its chatbot for “engagement” — creating conversations that keep a user hooked.2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry engagement
• Last but not least, and in the long term, this would mean that the Kremlin eventually has to give up its Putinian delusions of rebuilding the Russian empire.2022 March 4, Timothy Garton Ash, “In this moment of crisis, opening the door to Ukraine is one thing the EU can do”, in The Guardian. From the entry Putinian
• Melancholia is the most typical and classical presentation of depression with several compelling features such as impoverishment of emotional life and delusions of nihilism or guilt.2009, Arjan W. Braam, “Religion/Spirituality and Mood Disorders”, in Philippe Huguelet, Harold G. Koenig, editors, Religion and…. From the entry nihilism
• Challengeless bureaucratic jobs inhibit the normal development of the human personality, thus leading to poor mental health, apathy, and even the delusion that one prefers highly structured work.1986, Clark Kerr, Paul D. Staudohar, Industrial relations in a new age, page 79. From the entry challengeless
• Several patients, after repeated experience of echopraxia and pantomime, had the delusion that they could communicate with others without using words—merely transmitting ideas by a bodily movement.1966, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 112, Royal Medico-Psychological Association, page 241. From the entry echopraxia

Meaning of delusion

1. noun An adamant belief in a falsehood despite incontestable evidence.
2. noun The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
3. noun That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

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Questions about delusion in a sentence

How do you use delusion in a sentence?

Delusion is used as a noun. For example: “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

What is a short sentence with delusion?

“Your delusions are Joan of Arcian.”

What does delusion mean?

Delusion means an adamant belief in a falsehood despite incontestable evidence.