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maya
maya , in Hinduism, term used in the Veda to mean magic or supernatural power. In Mahayana Buddhism it acquires the meaning of illusion or unreality. The term is pivotal in the Vedanta system of Shankara, where it signifies the world as a cosmic illusion and also the power that creates the world... Read more
maya
maya , in Hinduism, term used in the Veda to mean magic or supernatural power. In Mahayana Buddhism it acquires the meaning of illusion or unreality. The term is pivotal in the Vedanta system of Shankara, where it signifies the world as a cosmic illusion and also the power that creates the world... Read more
special effects
special effects in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. Some common examples are the use of rear-screen projections, in which previously photographed material is projected behind the actors... Read more
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Stanton Macdonald-Wright 1890-1973, American artist, b. Charlottsville, Va. Macdonald-Wright was among the first Americans to paint in a totally abstract mode. Together with Morgan Russell , he founded synchromism in 1912. In paintings such as Oriental Synchromy in Blue-Green (1918; Whitney Mus.... Read more
Zeuxis
Zeuxis , fl. 5th cent. BC, Greek painter. According to tradition he settled in Ephesus, was an intimate (possibly a pupil) of Apollodorus, and aided in developing a technique for painting light and shadow. Although none of his paintings survives, they are known through ancient writings. Pliny speaks... Read more
Arthur Bowen Davies
Arthur Bowen Davies , 1862-1928, American painter and lithographer, b. Utica, N.Y., studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League, New York City. In 1893 he traveled in Europe and exhibited successfully on his return. A president of the Society of Independent Artists, he was la... Read more
Jean Eugène Robert Houdin
Jean Eugène Robert Houdin or Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin , 1805-71, French conjurer and magician. Originally a clockmaker, he was celebrated for his optical illusions and mechanical devices and for his attributing his "magic" to natural instead of supernatural means. Houdin was t... Read more
Sir Norman Angell
Sir Norman Angell 1872?-1967, British internationalist and economist, whose name originally was Ralph Norman Angell Lane. He came to fame with The Great Illusion (1910, rev. ed. 1933), in which he posited that the common economic interests of nations make war futile. At the close of World War I h... Read more
delusion
delusion false belief based upon a misinterpretation of reality. It is not, like a hallucination, a false sensory perception, or like an illusion, a distorted perception. Delusions vary in intensity, and are not uncommon among substance abusers, particularly those who use amphetamines, cocaine, and... Read more
dialectic
dialectic [Gr.,= art of conversation], in philosophy, term originally applied to the method of philosophizing by means of question and answer employed by certain ancient philosophers, notably Socrates. For Plato the term came to apply more strictly to logical method and meant the reduction of what ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "illusion"

illusions
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body illusions We see far more than meets the eyes, though not always correctly, for we experience various phenomena of illusion — departures from physical reality. Although they are errors, illusions are useful evidence of how eyes and brains normally work. But ‘illusion... Read more
animation
Book article from: World Encyclopedia animation Illusion of motion created by projecting successive images of still drawings...common form. Each of a series of drawings is photographed singly. The illusion of motion is created when the photographs are displayed in rapid succession... Read more
dizziness
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...difficulty in concentrating. Vertigo is the illusion of movement either of oneself or of the surroundings. The illusion of movement, when the neighbouring train...is a part of our dreams. We enjoy the illusion of movement in 3-D and circular surround... Read more
Loutherbourg, Philip James de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...painter, who had for some time made a special study of stage illusion and mechanics before visiting London in 1771. There he met...under Sheridan. He was particularly successful in producing the illusion of fire, volcanoes, sun, moonlight, and cloud-effects, and... Read more
maya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...magic or supernatural power. In Mahayana Buddhism it acquires the meaning of illusion or unreality. The term is pivotal in the Vedanta system of Shankara, where it signifies the world as a cosmic illusion and also the power that creates the world. Read more
mirage
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , atmospheric optical illusion in which an observer sees in the distance a nonexistent body of water or an image, sometimes distorted, of some object or of a... Read more
Blythe, Ronald (George)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Blythe, Ronald (George) (1922– ), author, born in Suffolk, whose works include The Age of Illusion (1963), a study of England between the wars; Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969), a study of an East Anglian village... Read more
Jakob Wassermann
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1873-1934, Austrian novelist, b. Bavaria. He won international fame with Christian Wahnschaffe (1919; tr. The World's Illusion, 1920), a novel whose moral intensity and characterization have suggested comparison to Dostoyevsky. Other works popular... Read more
cine camera
Book article from: World Encyclopedia cine camera Apparatus that takes a number of consecutive still photographs or frames, on film. The illusion of motion is created when the developed film is projected on to a screen. Big-screen cine cameras use 70mm cine film, most professional... Read more
Freud, Sigmund
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...in Freud's writing of The Future of an Illusion (1927). Pfister took up the challenge and responded in a lengthy article, "The Illusion of the Future" (1928). The inter-change...viewed religious beliefs as forms of illusion (if not delusion) and religious experience... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "illusion"

La Grande Illusion
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers LA GRANDE ILLUSION France, 1937 Director: Jean Renoir Production...Charles, and Jean Renoir, La grande illusion , London, 1968; Paris, 1971. Spaak...Joseph, Guerre et cin é ma: Grandes illusions et petits soldats 1895 – 1971... Read more
illusion
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...n. a false idea or belief: he had no illusions about the trouble she was in. ∎...deceptive appearance or impression: the illusion of family togetherness | the tension between illusion and reality. ∎  a thing that... Read more
Illusion
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Illusion (in Advaita Vedānta philosophy): see MĀYĀ (2) and MITHYĀ . Read more
multi user shared illusion
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet multi user shared illusion A form of MULTI USER DUNGEON game where the users can augment the current world they are playing in. Often abbreviated to MUSH. Read more
optical illusion
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English op·ti·cal il·lu·sion • n. an experience of seeming to see something that does not exist or that is other than it appears. ∎  something that deceives one's eyes and causes such an experience. optical illusion Read more
phantasm
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology phantasm illusion XIII; apparition, ghost; imagination, fancy XV; mental image XVI...x2014; L. phantasma ; see next. So phantasmagoria exhibition of optical illusions; shifting succession of imaginary figures XIX. prob. — F. fantasmagorie... Read more
prestige
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology prestige † illusion, conjuring trick XVII; brilliance or glamour derived from past success, etc. XIX. — F. — L. præstigium illusion, more usu. præstigiæ fem. pl. juggler's tricks, for * pr... Read more
trompe l'oeil
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English trompe l'oeil / ˌtrômp ˈloi / • n. ( pl. trompe l'oeils pronunc. same) visual illusion in art, esp. as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object. ∎  a painting or design intended to create such an illusion. Read more
phantom
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology phantom †illusion, deception XIII; apparition XIV; mental image XVI; appearance without substance XVII. ME. fanto(s)me , -um — OF. fanto(s... Read more
Wahnfried
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...x2018;Peace from Wahn’ ( Wahn = madness, illusion, etc.). Above portal he engraved: Hier , wo mein W...Wahnfried sei dieses Haus von mir benannt (Here where my illusion found peace, be this house named by me Peace from Illusion). Read more

Thesaurus entries related to "illusion"

illusion
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus illusion • noun   1. he had destroyed her illusions synonyms : delusion, misapprehension, misconception...self-deception.   2. the lighting increases the illusion of depth synonyms : appearance, impression, semblance... Read more
mirage
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English mirage • noun   synonyms : optical illusion, illusion, hallucination, phantasmagoria, phantasm. Read more
hallucination
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English hallucination • noun  this drug causes hallucinations synonyms : illusion, figment of the imagination, imagining, vision, mirage, false conception, fantasy, apparition, dream, delirium, phantasmagoria. Read more
conjuring
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus conjuring • noun  a demonstration of conjuring synonyms : magic, illusion, sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation. Read more
pipedream
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English pipedream • noun  have pipedreams of winning the lottery synonyms : fantasy, illusion, daydream, castle in the air, castle in Spain, pie in the sky, delusion. Read more
chimera
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus chimera • noun  is this great love of hers merely a chimera? synonyms : illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, daydream, pipe dream, figment of the/one's imagination, castle in the air, mirage. Read more
figment
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus figment • noun  a figment of his very creative imagination synonyms : invention, creation, fabrication; hallucination, illusion, delusion, fancy, vision. See note at fiction. Read more
fallacy
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English fallacy • noun   synonyms : mistaken belief, misbelief, misconception, false notion, misapprehension, misjudgment, miscalculation, error, mistake, untruth, inconsistency, illusion, delusion, deceit, deception, sophism; sophistry. Read more
delusion
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus delusion • noun  was her belief in his fidelity just a delusion? synonyms : misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, mistake, error, misinterpretation, misconstruction, misbelief; fallacy, illusion, fantasy. Read more
vision
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...revelation.   3. saw wild horses in one of his visions synonyms : dream, hallucination, chimera, optical illusion, mirage, illusion, delusion, figment of the imagination.   4. have visions of a romantic weekend synonyms : dream, daydream... Read more

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Discovery and a preliminary study of the parallel lines illusion change effect.
Magazine article from: The Journal of General Psychology; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; WHEN OBSERVING PARALLEL-LINES ILLUSIONS (e.g., the Zollner illusion, the Hering illusion, the Wundt illusion), we found that in a figure that intersects on a slant with the line of vision, the degree of the illusory effect varies in accordance... Read more
Aesthetic illusion as an effect of fiction.
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; 1. Introduction: Aesthetic Illusion as Reception Phenomenon and as a...delusion, they presuppose aesthetic illusion: a feeling of being recentered in...triggered by a mere artefact. Aesthetic illusion is an attractive effect of the reading... Read more
The apparent distance of interior and exterior corners: a test of Gregory's misapplied size constancy explanation for the Mueller-Lyer illusion.
Magazine article from: The Journal of General Psychology; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...TEXTBOOK EXPLANATION for the Mueller-Lyer illusion (e.g., Coren & Ward, 1989; Gleitman...two-dimensional figures in the Mueller-Lyer illusion suggest a three-dimensional representation...explanation because the Mueller-Lyer illusion involves a between-figure illusion that... Read more
The illusion of increasing loudness in brief steady tones: variation with carrier frequency.
Magazine article from: The Journal of General Psychology; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...present article I address a lesser known illusion of changing loudness. A brief steady...1935; Small, 1977). Until recently, the illusion had been reported only informally in...Reinhardt-Rutland (1988) reported the illusion while investigating aftereffects of changing... Read more
Islands of Illusion: A Collection of New Poems.(Book review)
Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch; 4/1/2008; ; 558 words ; Islands of Illusion: A Collection of New Poems Ernest Dempsey...Khan and his book of poetry, Islands of Illusion, leaves little doubt of this. Anyone...entitled, Introduction, where she says, Illusion is that which misleads. That is a definition... Read more
Illusion and disillusionment; core issues in psychotherapy. (reprint, 1999).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 113 words ; 9780765705174 Illusion and disillusionment; core issues in psychotherapy...of psychotherapy, Teitelbaum discusses illusion and the process involved in dealing with the loss or disruption of core illusions, as they apply to conflicts presented by... Read more
Intrigue of nations.(Book Review: THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY: Americans in World War I)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY: Americans in World War I...Wilson's aspirations in the Great War, The Illusion of Victory, historian and novelist Thomas...without victory would soon be at hand. The Illusion of Victory is hyperbolic and so hostile... Read more
Grandest Illusion.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch; 3/1/2007; ; 187 words ; Grandest Illusion Norman Haughness Echo Park Press PO Box...CA 93581 0975929917 $33.00 Grandest Illusion: The Seductive Myth of Free Will is an...practical outcome of this theory, Grandest Illusion emphatically protests an American justice... Read more
Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2008; ; 482 words ; Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and...of 9/11 as it could have been? Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and...truth of their assertions, however, Grand Illusion is good journalism and bad history. Assuming... Read more
The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. By...Propaganda carefully constructed the illusion that film, while holding its audience...Rentschler maintains, offered only the illusion of escape from the Nazi status quo... Read more