Delusion and Ghost

Delusion

Delusion noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.

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Ghost and delusion are semantically related. in misconception topic. In some cases you can use "Ghost" instead a noun "Delusion".

Nearby Words: delude, delusive, delusory, deluded, deluding

Ghost noun - The soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people.

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Delusion and ghost are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Delusion" instead a noun "Ghost".

Nearby Words: ghostly, ghosted, ghosting

human	human delusion	human ghost
good	good delusion	good ghost
particular	particular delusion	particular ghost
specific	specific delusion	specific ghost
Other adjectives: genuine, small, huge, dangerous, bad, psychic, final, psychotic, mad, giant.

Somehow she would be standing right behind me instead, reaching out her pale, ghost-like hands... A terrible delusion.

Source: Vehicle Vanish
For a while, by far the longest entry on that game's Wild Mass Guessing page was devoted to a theory that Henry is the real killer, and "Walter Sullivan's ghost" his delusion.

Source: Dysfunction Junction / Video Games
The supernatural and bizarre events that occurred throughout the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters by The Reveal that the protagonist was insane, but then the real stepmother is later attacked by the ghost that was earlier dismissed as a delusion.

Source: Real After All

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