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錯覚 (さっかく, sakkaku) Japanese meaning: illusion | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 錯覚する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 錯さっ 覚かく する 錯さっ 覚かく しない Polite 錯さっ 覚かく します 錯さっ 覚かく しません Past polite 錯さっ 覚かく しました 錯さっ 覚かく しませんでした Past 錯さっ 覚かく した 錯さっ 覚かく しなかった Te-form 錯さっ 覚かく して 錯さっ 覚かく しないで Desire 錯さっ 覚かく したい 錯さっ 覚かく したくない Potential 錯さっ 覚かく できる 錯さっ 覚かく できない Passive 錯さっ 覚かく される 錯さっ 覚かく されない Causative 錯さっ 覚かく させる 錯さっ 覚かく させない Causative passive 錯さっ 覚かく させられる 錯さっ 覚かく させられない Volitional 錯さっ 覚かく しよう Polite volitional 錯さっ 覚かく しましょう Imperative 錯さっ 覚かく しろ 錯さっ 覚かく するな Conditional 錯さっ 覚かく すれば 錯さっ 覚かく しなければ Tara conditional 錯さっ 覚かく したら 錯さっ 覚かく しなかったら
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暗くら 闇やみ で 人ひと の 顔かお に 見み え た の は 錯さっ 覚かく だっ た 。
What looked like a face in the dark was an illusion.
When you're tired, you may experience an illusion of hearing sounds that aren't really there.
Usage patterns 錯さっ 覚かく を 起お こす to produce/experience an illusion
Bright colors create the illusion that a room looks bigger.
錯さっ 覚かく に 陥おちい る to fall into a delusion/misconception
He had fallen into the delusion that he was special.
錯さっ 覚かく を 覚おぼ える to get the feeling/impression that (something unreal is happening)
I got the eerie feeling that time had stopped.
〜 という 錯さっ 覚かく を 抱いだ く to hold the misconception that ~
He was holding onto the illusion that he was succeeding.
Kanji 錯 confused, mix, be in disorder 覚 memorize, learn, remember Related words· 10 幻覚 is a hallucination with no external stimulus (often clinical), while 錯覚 covers any misperception, including ordinary optical illusions.
誤解 is a general misunderstanding of facts or someone's meaning, while 錯覚 implies a deeper, often sensory or subjective false belief.
勘違い is the everyday, casual word for a simple mistaken assumption, while 錯覚 sounds more analytical and can describe a lingering false impression.
錯覚 is the everyday native Japanese word for a mistaken sensory perception, while イリュージョン is a loanword more often used for stage magic or artistic illusions.
Show 6 more 錯覚 is a momentary sensory misperception, whereas 幻影 suggests a more sustained or ghostly false appearance.
錯覚 is a more formal, clinical term for an illusion or misperception, whereas 気のせい is a casual everyday phrase used to dismiss a feeling as unreal.
錯覚 is a sensory or cognitive misperception like an optical illusion, whereas 幻想 is a broader imaginative fantasy or unrealistic hope not tied to sensory error.
錯覚 is a technical term for a sensory illusion or misperception, while 幻 is a broader, more poetic word for an apparition or unreal vision.
Don't confuse with 錯覚 is a sensory or perceptual illusion (misperceiving reality), while 錯誤 is a mistake or discrepancy in judgment, intention, or fact.
錯覚 refers to a perceptual illusion or false sensory impression, while 勘違い is a mistaken belief or assumption in one's reasoning, not a sensory trick.
錯覚 is a false perception or illusion (a mistaken belief about reality), while 錯乱 is a state of mental confusion or derangement, not merely a misperception.
Etymology Compound of 錯 (confusion, mix-up) and 覚 (perception, sensation). The term was coined in the Meiji period as a translation for Western psychological concepts like 'illusion'.
錯覚 is a misperception of something real (like an optical illusion), whereas 妄想 is a false belief not grounded in any actual sensory stimulus.
錯覚 is a false perception or illusion (often sensory), while 思い込み is a false belief held with confidence.
