1 [C] a false belief or opinion about yourself or your situation:
the delusions of the mentally ill * Don't go getting delusions of grandeur (= a belief that you are more important than you actually are). * He was suffering from paranoid delusions and hallucinations. * Love can be nothing but a delusion.
2 [U] the act of believing or making yourself believe sth that is not true:
He seems to have retreated into a world of fear and delusion.
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