Synonyms of chimeras

chimeras

noun

plural of chimera

as in illusions

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 & Similar Words

• illusions
• visions
• dreams
• fantasies
• daydreams
• phantasms
• ideas
• delusions
• unrealities
• figments
• castles in the air
• hallucinations
• castles in Spain
• conceits
• nightmares
• mirages
• pipe dreams
• nonentities
• fictions
• fancies
• concoctions
• fabrications
• utopias
• inventions
• brainchildren
• visualizations
• fables
• ignes fatui
• will-o'-the-wisps
• cloudlands
• cloud-cuckoo-lands
• Shangri-las
• daymares

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of chimeras

Workers will continue with smaller tasks around the facade, including the installation of chimeras that sit on the roofline, but the heavy lifting has been completed, Walter said. — Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, an animal advocacy organization, argued that if such chimeras gained humanlike awareness, they should be treated as human research subjects. — Monika Piotrowska, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025