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101motion aftereffect — (MAE) A term used to denote a type of aftereffect characterized by illusory motion. The American experimental psychologists George Mather et al. define the MAE as the illusory movement of a physically stationary scene following exposure to …
102Pinocchio illusion — Also referred to as phantom nose illusion. The eponym Pinocchio illusion refers to Pinocchio, the protagonist of the childrens book The Adventures of Pinocchio by the Italian author Carlo Lorenzini, better known as Carlo Collodi (18261890). It …
103delusive — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Tending to deceive; of the nature of an illusion: delusory, illusive, illusory. See REAL. 2. Tending to lead one into error: deceptive, delusory, fallacious, illusive, illusory, misleading. See HONEST, REAL. 3 …
104delusory — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Tending to deceive; of the nature of an illusion: delusive, illusive, illusory. See REAL. 2. Tending to lead one into error: deceptive, delusive, fallacious, illusive, illusory, misleading. See HONEST, REAL. 3 …
105illusive — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, visionary. See REAL. 2.… …
106illusive — (adj.) deceptive, illusory, formed in English 1670s, from stem of ILLUSION (Cf. illusion) + IVE (Cf. ive); Cf. also ILLUSORY (Cf. illusory) …
107ostensible — adjective the ostensible star is Lana Turner, but it s Juanita Moore who makes the movie click Syn: apparent, outward, superficial, professed, supposed, alleged, purported Ant: genuine •• ostensible, apparent, illusory, seeming The apparent… …
108elusive — elusive, illusory The confusion here has been greatly reduced by the virtual disappearance from the scene of the forms elusory and illusive. This leaves elusive as the adjective from elude, meaning ‘difficult to grasp (physically or mentally)’,… …
109whole — by Jonattan Roffe As early as his first book, Empiricism and Subjectivity, Deleuze rejects the idea of total unities, and works to analyse how things which are practically speaking unified like human beings, societies and ideas of God and… …
110promise — A declaration which binds the person who makes it, either in honor, conscience, or law, to do or forbear a certain specific act, and which gives to the person to whom made a right to expect or claim the performance of some particular thing. A… …
