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de•lu•sion



Pronunciation: (di-lOO'zhun), [key]
n.
1. an act or instance of deluding.
2. the state of being deluded.
3. a false belief or opinion: delusions of grandeur.
4. Psychiatry.a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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