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Illusion


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Kobi
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Rouge
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Orchid
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Words evoked by this color:
gradual,  tiptoed,  euphemism,  polite,  lenient,  complaisant,  politely,  disarm,  kind,  nurturance,  kindly,  nicely,  tending,  solicitous,  touching,  mothering,  sensitively,  sympathetically,  apology,  caress,  intimated,  caressed,  coaxing,  nurturing,  nuzzle,  snuggled,  caressing,  motherly,  disarming,  tenderly,  esthetician,  elise,  personal,  crochet,  empathy,  caregiver,  knitting,  embracing,  embraced,  humaine,  kinship,  succour,  caregiving,  humane,  domesticity,  apologetically,  cuddle,  cradled,  postpartum,  tender
Literary analysis:
Literature employs the word "illusion" to explore the gap between appearance and reality, often questioning the reliability of our perceptions and the nature of truth. In some works, illusion is depicted as a social or technological façade that masks genuine progress or decay, as when modern improvements are critiqued for offering little real advancement [1]. At other times, it becomes a metaphor for personal deception, where even emotions such as love are rendered only partly real, deceiving the heart while leaving the object untouched [2]. Philosophical musings also cast illusion as a transformative force, one that can both veil and eventually reveal truths about existence and perception [3] while serving as a tool for counter-deception in mythic narratives [4]. This multifaceted usage underscores illusion’s enduring power as a concept that binds the realms of the tangible and the mysterious.
  1. As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.
    — from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
  2. Love is accordingly only half an illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  3. Persuasion is a mere illusion, the ground of the judgement, which lies solely in the subject, being regarded as objective.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  4. And ascertaining it I destroyed his illusion by counter-illusion.
    — from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1


Colors associated with the word:
Opal
Lavender 
Phantom Black
Ethereal White
Smoky Quartz
Words with similar colors:
illusory,  wisp,  hazy,  distant,  speechless,  seeming,  wavering,  reverie,  reve,  glimpsed,  quivered,  ephemeral,  ether,  transient,  glimpse,  iridescent,  diaphanous,  moist,  yonder,  somnolent
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