Word Meanings - ILLUSIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

VISIONARY
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
ILLUSIONABLE
Liable to illusion.
DREAMER
1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
ILLUSIONIST
One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
ILLUSION
A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination,
GIVEN
p. p. & a. from Give, v.
DIVISIONARY
Divisional.
DISILLUSION
The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.
PROVISIONARY
Provisional. Burke.
DISILLUSIONIZE
To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.
REVISIONAL; REVISIONARY
Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.
DAYDREAMER
One given to draydreams.
FORGIVENESS
1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
DISILLUSIONMENT
The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.