Something many people believe that is false.
synonyms: fancy, fantasy, illusion.
Roget 453:
idea,
notion,
conception,
thought,
apprehension,
impression,
perception,
image,
eidolon [Gr.],
sentiment,
reflection,
observation,
consideration;
abstract idea;
archetype,
formative notion;
guiding conception,
organizing conception;
image in the mind,
regulative principle.
view
etc.
(opinion)
484;
theory
etc.
514;
conceit,
fancy;
phantasy
etc.
(imagination)
515.
point of view
etc.
(aspect)
448;
field of view.
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Roget 515:
imagination;
originality;
invention;
fancy;
inspiration;
verve.
warm imagination,
heated imagination,
excited imagination,
sanguine imagination,
ardent imagination,
fiery imagination,
boiling imagination,
wild imagination,
bold imagination,
daring imagination,
playful imagination,
lively imagination,
fertile imagination,
fancy.
mind's eye;"
such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest].
ideality,
idealism;
romanticism,
utopianism,
castle-building.
dreaming;
phrensy†,
frenzy;
ecstasy,
extasy†;
calenture
etc.
(delirium)
503†;
reverie,
trance;
day dream,
golden dream;
somnambulism.
conception,
Vorstellung [G.],
excogitation†,
a fine frenzy;"
cloudland†,
dreamland;
flight of fancy,
fumes of fancy;
thick coming fancies"
[Macbeth];
creation of the brain,
coinage of the brain;
imagery.
conceit,
maggot,
figment,
myth,
dream,
vision,
shadow,
chimera;
phantasm,
phantasy;
fantasy,
fancy;
whim,
whimsey†,
whimsy;
vagary,
rhapsody,
romance,
gest†,
geste†,
extravaganza;
air drawn dagger,
bugbear,
nightmare.
flying Dutchman,
great sea serpent,
man in the moon,
castle in the air,
pipe dream,
pie-in-the-sky,
chateau en Espagne [Fr.];
Utopia,
Atlantis†,
happy valley,
millennium,
fairyland;
land of Prester John,
kindgom of Micomicon;
work of fiction
etc.
(novel)
594;
Arabian nights†;
le pot au lait [Fr.];
dream of Alnashar
etc.
(hope)
858†.
illusion
etc.
(error)
495;
phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
Fata Morgana
etc.
(ignis fatuus) [Lat.]
423;
vapor
etc.
(cloud)
353;
stretch of the imagination
etc.
(exaggeration)
549;
mythogenesis†.
idealist,
romanticist,
visionary;
mopus†;
romancer,
dreamer;
somnambulist;
rhapsodist
etc.
(fanatic)
504;
castle-buildier,
fanciful projector.
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Dutch: zinsbegoocheling, fantasy, illusie, inbeelding, verbeelding
Polish: iluzja, złudzenie