Synonyms of mirages

mirages

noun

plural of mirage

as in daydreams

something that comes from or exists only in the mind and is not real

He thought he saw water up ahead but it was just a mirage.

Related Words

• daydreams
• dreams
• visions
• illusions
• unrealities
• delusions
• nightmares
• fantasies
• phantasms
• hallucinations
• figments
• chimeras
• fictions
• optical illusions
• conceits
• fabrications
• nonentities
• concoctions
• fancies
• pipe dreams
• visualizations
• ideas
• apparitions
• inventions
• brainchildren
• utopias
• ignes fatui
• fables
• will-o'-the-wisps
• originalities
• appearances
• ideations
• contrivances
• creativities
• Shangri-las
• cloudlands
• daymares
• mind's eyes

Dissimilar Words

• facts
• realities
• actualities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mirages

Season openers often produce outlier performances and knee-jerk overreactions that look like complete mirages by the end of the year. — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026

The problems with mail ballots These easily explained mirages don’t necessarily mean that mail-ballot fraud is a nonissue and that there is nothing to be concerned about. — Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

These wall drawings—at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, in 2024; the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2025; and Houston’s Menil Collection, in 2025—were all temporary, like frolicsome mirages. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026

The film opens with real mirages filmed near Aswan in Egypt, where atmospheric conditions produce optical distortions. — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026

Multimodal models see ‘mirages’ This past week has brought yet more evidence of how weird these models are. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026

Bat away mirages and stick to what’s really in your viewfinder. — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026

At the frontier edge of astronomy, tantalizing new observations have a tendency to be mirages. — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025

But inside, slabs of colored glass, hunks of polished resin, and sundry material experiments gleam like mirages in the sunlight that streams in from the ceiling and windows. — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025