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Definition of Delusions
1. delusion [n] - See also: delusion
Medical Definition of Delusions
1. A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts, and is not considered tenable by one's associates. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delusions
Literary usage of Delusions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"Delusions Almost every psychosis has certain definite characteristic delusions.
Consequently the value of such delusions for differential diagnosis is ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"On the other hand, certain of these delusions are fixed. They persist for long
periods of ... One may also consider the delusions from another standpoint. ..."
3. Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators by James Schouler (1915)
"But what we call delusions afford a very capricious standard; and certainly
capricious in their legal relations, as concerns testamentary capacity. ..."
4. Lessons in elementary physiology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1881)
"The delusions of the judgment, produced not by abnormal conditions of the body,
but by unusual or artificial combinations of sensations, or by suggestions ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"Delusions have been recognized as such at all periods of history, and in fact it
is this symptom which has given rise to the popular idea of crazyness and ..."
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