Meaning of optical delusion | Babel Free

Definitions

A vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.

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Examples

“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 standing where it had been.”

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