Definition of Illusionary

1. Adjective. Marked by or producing illusion. "Illusionary stage effects"

Exact synonyms: Illusional
Similar to: Unreal
Derivative terms: Illusion, Illusion, Illusion, Illusion

Definition of Illusionary

1. Adjective. Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Illusionary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illusionary

illuminizing
illuminometer
illuminometers
illuminous
illupi
illupis
illure
illured
illures
illuring
illusion
illusion of doubles
illusion of movement
illusionable
illusional
illusionary
illusioned
illusionism
illusionisms
illusionist
illusionistic
illusionistically
illusionists
illusionless
illusionlike
illusions
illusive
illusively
illusiveness
illusivenesses

Literary usage of Illusionary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mystery of Space: A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the by Robert T. Browne (1919)
"... Intellectual Notions—The Tuitional and the Intuitional Faculties—The Illusionary Character of the Phenomenal—Consciousness and the Degrees of Realism. ..."

2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"The great Hindoo or Brahmin philosophers held to the illusionary character of this world of phenomena and of the dream-life lived by what they called the ..."

3. The Deeper Mysteries by Edward Clarence Farnsworth (1921)
"On the other hand, the usual teaching makes man a triad of real and imperishable higher principles which reflect themselves downward as an illusionary triad ..."

4. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"... human beings to salvation by teaching them to practise the greatest purity and virtue, and by detaching them from the service of this illusionary world, ..."

5. Pillory and Witness-box by Ferdinand Hansen (1920)
"trained gladiator for the right, their missioner of a new world-dispensation, their prophet of an illusionary democracy. He was to teach a bankrupt, ..."

6. A Treatise on Materia Medica (including Therapeutics and Toxicology) by Hermann Nothnagel, Michael Joseph Rossbach (1883)
"In haemoptysis its utility is entirely illusionary. ... This is only illusionary. 3. Charta Nitrata—Paper impregnated with saltpeter—strips of this are ..."

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