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delusional

adj
/dɪˈluːʒənəl/

Etymology

From delusion + -al.

Definitions

  1. Suffering from delusions

    Suffering from delusions; having false or faulty beliefs.

    • You're delusional if you think that plan will work.
    • Morgan could not remember the last time he had heard his first name used, and he had not even been aware that Captain Jackson knew it. Regardless, he could not reply; he was sure he must be delusional. He had lost too much blood […]

  2. Being, in the form of, or relating to, a delusion.

    • Delusional jealousy […] A delusional belief that one's partner is being unfaithful. This can occur as part of a wider psychotic illness, secondary to organic brain damage (e.g. following the 'punch drunk syndrome' in boxers), […]

  3. A person suffering from a delusion.

    • But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!

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Derived

antidelusional, delulu, delusional companion syndrome, delusional disorder, delusionality, delusionally, delusional misidentification syndrome, delusional parasitosis, nondelusional, predelusional, undelusional

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at delusional. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at delusional. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at delusional

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA