illusory

English

Etymology

From Middle French illusorie (modern French illusoire), from Latin illusorius (“mocking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈluːs(ə)ɹi/, /ɪˈluːz(ə)ɹi/

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Adjective

illusory (comparative more illusory, superlative most illusory)

1. Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
   • 1973, Jadunath Sinha, A History of Indian Philosophy, volume 4, page 174:

     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.

Related terms

• illusion
• illusionary
• illusive

Translations

illusory

• Bulgarian: илюзорен (bg) (iljuzoren), нереален (bg) (nerealen)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 虛幻／虚幻 (heoi¹ waan⁶)

  Hokkien: 虛幻／虚幻 (hi-huàn)

  Mandarin: 虛幻／虚幻 (zh) (xūhuàn)

• Czech: iluzorní
• Finnish: mielikuvituksellinen (fi), harhainen (fi)
• French: illusoire (fr)
• Galician: ilusorio m
• Georgian: ილუზორული (iluzoruli)
• German: illusorisch (de), illusionär (de), wirklichkeitsfremd (de)
• Greek: απατηλός (el) (apatilós)
• Hebrew: תַּעְתְּעָנִי
• Italian: illusorio (it)
• Latin: illusorius
• Maltese: illużorju
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: illusorisk

  Nynorsk: illusorisk

• Polish: iluzoryczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: ilusório (pt)
• Romanian: iluzoriu (ro)
• Russian: иллюзо́рный (ru) (illjuzórnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: ȉluzōran (sh) m
• Spanish: ilusorio (es)
• Swedish: illusorisk (sv), skenbar (sv)
• Yiddish: אילוזאָריש (iluzorish)