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chimera

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of chimera

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

a monster in the closet would not have been the first chimera that the boy had seen in his mind's eye

Synonyms of chimera

conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

Words Related to chimera

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare

Phrases Synonymous with chimera

castle in Spain, castle in the air

Near Antonyms of chimera

actuality, fact, reality

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