delusion : Idioms & Phrases
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delusions of grandeur
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noun a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are
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delusions of persecution
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noun a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complicated conspiracy is frequently imagined
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nihilistic delusion
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noun the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal
nihilism.
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self-delusion
Self`-de*lu"sion noun
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The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
Webster 1913
somatic delusion
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noun a delusion concerning the body image or parts of the body
