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Definition

deceive (convince to have a false belief)

She is a sincere but deluded idealist.

deluded = with a false belief

She has delusions of grandeur.

delusions = false beliefs

(editor's note: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.)

Don't delude yourself. You're drinking too much.

delude = deceive (convince of a false belief)

as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

delusions = false beliefs

If the poor soul is that delusional, he's even sicker than I thought.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

delusional = out of touch with reality (having false beliefs)

The woman is delusional.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry

delusional = out of touch with reality (having false beliefs)

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
Or would she go a step further, and delude us into believing that the Moonstone was stolen?
Collins, Wilkie -- The Moonstone
You delude me with a false assent, and then I am at the mercy of your devices.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
Are you any less deluded?
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
There are many deceptions and delusions in nature that serve a purpose.
Anton Chekhov -- Home

He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
First the delusions start, then animal instincts begin to overpower the human ones.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

Do you understand now, deluded ones?
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I pity this man's deluded and diseased mind.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
I thought it at the best an amiable delusion.
Henry James -- The American

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

Self-deluding heroics always get in the way and screw things up.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
A curious delusion—as if adding zeros could produce a sum.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

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