optical delusion
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was the victim of some hallucination, or that the refraction from the intense light produced an optical delusion; and, as I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been."