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📖 Определения и значения для слова illusion

📒 a false idea or belief, especially about somebody or about a situation

  • under the illusion that… She's under the illusion that (= believes wrongly that) she'll get the job.
  • illusion about something The new president has no illusions about the difficulties facing her country (= she knows that the country has serious problems).
  • I have no illusions about her feelings for me (= I know the truth is that she does not love me).

📒 something that seems to exist but in fact does not, or seems to be something that it is not

  • Mirrors in a room often give an illusion of space.
  • The idea of absolute personal freedom is an illusion.
  • It turned out that their happy marriage was all an illusion.
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