mirageliterary
C2[ C ]
something that is not really what it seems to be: 假象，错觉
create the illusion ofA large mirror in a room can create the illusion of space.房间里放面大镜子能给人一种房间很宽敞的错觉。
The impression of calm in the office is just an illusion.办公室里的平静其实只是种假象。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unreal things and unreality
alternate reality
alternative reality
birther
cloud cuckoo land
delusion
fairyland
fallacy
false hopes
falsity
fantasy
la-la land
make believephrase
never-never land
non-fact
non-factual
phantom
pie
pie in the skyidiom
unreality
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Hiding and disguising

illusion | American Dictionary

illusion
noun[ C ]
us/ɪˈlu·ʒən/
an idea or belief that is not true, or something that is not what it seems to be:
We have no illusions about how difficult the job will be.
[ + that clause ]I was under the illusion that trains ran frequently on weekends (= I wrongly believed this).
They managed to create the illusion of space in a tiny apartment.

illusory

adjectiveus/ɪˈlu·sə·ri, -zə·ri/
Her fears were illusory.

Examples of illusion

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Positive illusions and well-being revisited : separating fact from fiction.
At this point, however, the reader needs no change in perspective to envision "hazy" as a carnivalesque hazing or travesty of romance illusions.
Lighting, backlighting and watercolor illusions and the laws of figurality.
Both of these illusions persist even when viewers are made aware of the true nature of the stimuli and the bases for their misperceptions.
Furthermore, subjects will experience percepts that defy reality when necessary to retain the illusions.
Table 2 summarizes the literature on visual illusions and body movements.
In contrast, in the perception-action model, the effects of visual illusions should be consistent (either small or large) throughout the movement.
Many findings are consistent with the idea that visual illusions influence perception more than action.
Parenthetically, if our theoretical position is correct, then losing crucial perceptual processing hardware should thereby also destroy the effects of pictorial illusions on action planning.
In fact, one may argue that these illusions are not illusions at all, because the visual system as such provides the correct percept.
When the proper physics are employed, errors, illusions, and variability should decrease.
Many studies have compared information processing in the dorsal and ventral pathways by comparing the influence of illusions in perceptual and motor tasks.
All perceived distal relationships, and most illusions, seemed quantitatively predictable, within this unified enterprise, making it an admirable first start at a theory of perception.
They show that when the illusion's perceptual effects are studied with single-circle presentations there are no differences between the two types of responses.
Most size illusions were therefore caused by perceptual mistakes about distance.
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Collocations withillusion

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dangerous illusion
I once described the notion of a universal system of morality as a dangerousillusion.
illusion of depth
The image is visible trough the transparent area of the tiles and features a parallax effect when scrolling which gives an illusionofdepth.
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