seeing things
Definition
› If you are seeing things, you are imagining that things are happening when they are not: Didn't Marie come in just now? I must have been seeing things.True, real, false, and unreal
(Definition of seeing things from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- actual adjective
- actuality noun
- actually adverb (IN FACT)
- all that glitters is not gold idiom
- apocryphal adjective
- exclude verb
- fabulous adjective (NOT REAL)
- fact noun
- factual adjective
- fairy-tale adjective
- made up adjective (INVENTED)
- mendacious adjective
- mythical adjective
- nothing could have been further from my mind/thoughts idiom
- practically adverb (REALLY)
- undeniable adjective
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- unreal adjective (IMAGINARY)
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- verifiable adjective
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