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noun
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
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Pernau was not given to delusions of grandeur.
You'd forgive Goold for succumbing to delusions of grandeur himself after his rapid rise.
For someone prone to delusions and auditory hallucinations, it seems like the worst possible environment.
References to delusions abound; but they are mixed, thankfully, with some well-placed levity.
Drooling over racks of totalitarian resort finery, I succumbed to delusions of megalomania.
The characters in this volume's other stories are also susceptible to delusions, fantasies and yearnings for other lives.
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Is there a line one crosses from stoicism to delusion?
So goodbye to delusion, distraction and division, hello to unity and resolve.
But stagnant rates of mobility risk turning the American dream to delusion.
In an important sense, "Stumbling on Happiness" is a paean to delusion.
In fact it could merely be taken as evidence of a proven susceptibility to delusion itself.
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