optical delusion

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optical delusion

noun optical delusions

  1. dated A vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light. I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was the victim of some hallucination, or that the refraction from the intense light produced an optical delusion; and, as I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standi

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@misc{optical_delusion_2026,
  title = {optical delusion},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/optical%20delusion},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}