illusory
adjUK /ɪˈluː.sə.ɹiː/ · CA, US /ɪˈlu.sə.ɹi/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French illusorie (modern French illusoire), derived from Latin illūsōrius (“mocking, ironical”).
1
Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
- The invalidity of a cognition is the otherwiseness of its object, and is known by a sublating cognition. The illusory cognition of silver knows illusory silver, but does not know its otherwiseness.1973, Jadunath Sinha, A History of Indian Philosophy, volume 4, page 174:
- Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman’s sole purpose.2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- illusorily, illusoriness, nonillusory, unillusory
- Related terms
- illusion, illusionary, illusive