delusion

Preposition: of

• grandeur: These delusions of grandeur are typical of the arrogant New Labor regime.
• morality: Unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
• adequacy: They're all the same these people, infused with delusions of adequacy.
• persecution: If a person has delusions of persecution, they may be suspicious of any questions about their mental state.
• control: This forward model has been shown to be abnormal in people who experience delusions of control.
• mind: Despite overwhelming evidence that his planetary excursions were delusions of the mind, Adamski continued to fascinate people in high places.

Converse of object

• suffer: Vince Johnson said the investigator was suffering delusions of grandeur.
• experience: Nash replied, âI do continue to experience such delusions.
• have: I have no delusions about the reality of Angel sans soul.
• create: The hidden flaw at this level is that love creates the delusion of glamor: the spiritual life appears to be glamorous and enchanting.
• develop: You may have developed delusions of competence, even independent thinking, during the campaign.
• include: Positive symptoms These include delusions, hallucinations and thought disorder, which together may be called " psychosis " .

Adjective modifier

• paranoid: Paranoid delusions in Howard's A Beautiful Mind were like being in a pretty good spy movie with Ed Harris.
• persecutory: The American revolution, some historians now argue, was rooted in a pandemic of persecutory delusions.
• mere: What you have just witnessed, he says, is a mere delusion of the sight.
• dangerous: But that is exactly the direction in which dangerous delusions about US power might take us.
• optical: He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
• collective: Collective delusion and ignorance often play havoc in society.

Noun used with modifier

• self: We cannot afford to live much longer in a world of economic self delusion.
• mass: Mass hypnosis, mass delusion, mass persecution, mass hoax.