- an act or instance of deluding.
- the state of being deluded.
- a false belief or opinion: delusions of grandeur.
- a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion.
- a mistaken or misleading opinion, idea, belief, etc
- a belief held in the face of evidence to the contrary, that is resistant to all reason
- the act of deluding or state of being deluded