MAKE BELIEF meaning: Creating reality through imagination, perception - OneLook

Usually means: Creating reality through imagination, perception.

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make-belief: Merriam-Webster
make-belief: Wordnik
make belief: Wiktionary
Make-belief: Dictionary.com
Make-belief: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
make-belief: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Make-belief: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
make-belief: FreeDictionary.org
make-belief: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make belief)

▸ noun: The abstract quality of making believe

Similar:

pretending, make-believe, imaginariness, imagination, reification, figment of one's imagination, fancy, imagining, wishful thinking, abstraction, more...

Opposite:

reality, truth, factuality

Phrases:

land of make belief, more...

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Similar:

pretending, make-believe, imaginariness, imagination, reification, figment of one's imagination, fancy, imagining, wishful thinking, abstraction, more...

Opposite:

reality, truth, factuality

Phrases:

land of make belief, more...

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