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11illusive conception — Also known as spectral illusion. The two terms were introduced as synonyms in 1847 by the British surgeon Walter Cooper Dendy (17941871), denoting a subclass of ghosts of the mind s eye , which itself constitutes a subclass of what Dendy calls …
12illusive perception — Also known as ocular spectra. The two terms were introduced as synonyms in 1847 by the British surgeon Walter Cooper Dendy (17941871), denoting a subclass of ghosts of the mind s eye , which itself constitutes a subclass of what Dendy calls… …
13illusive — adjective Date: 1606 illusory • illusively adverb • illusiveness noun …
14illusive — illusively, adv. illusiveness, n. /i looh siv/, adj. illusory. [1670 80; ILLUS(ORY) + IVE] * * * …
15illusive — Synonyms and related words: Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, airy, apparent, apparently sound, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewitching, casuistic, catchy, charming, chimeric, colorable, deceiving, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive …
16illusive — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, visionary. See REAL. 2.… …
17illusive — il·lu·sive || ɪ luËsɪv adj. deceptive, misleading, false, unreal; illusory, elusive, hard to grasp …
18illusive — [ɪ l(j)u:sɪv] adjective chiefly literary deceptive; illusory. Origin C17: from med. L. illusivus, from L. illus , illudere (see illusion) …
19illusive — a.; (also illusory) Deceptive, deceitful, delusive, fallacious …
20illusive — il·lu·sive …
