illusory

comparative more illusory · superlative most illusory

1. Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.

   The invalidity of a cognition is the otherwiseness of its object, and is known by a sublating cognition. The illusory cognition of silver knows illusory silver, but does not know its otherwiseness.

   1973, Jadunath Sinha, A History of Indian Philosophy, volume 4, page 174

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   Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman’s sole purpose.

   2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in The Guardian, →ISSN