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il•lu•sion•ism



Pronunciation: (i-lOO'zhu-niz"um), [key]
—n.
1. a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Cf. trompe l'oeil.
2. Philos.a theory or doctrine that the material world is an illusion.

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