Illustration: In a cramped Japanese apartment, a young adult wearing pajamas stands grandly on a floor cushion, holding a television remote like a royal scepter. An extravagant imagined court of kneeling attendants appears around them, with jeweled robes and trays of treasure.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

妄もう想そう

mousou

delusion, wild fantasy

Example sentences

  1. あの少女しょうじょは自分じぶんが王女様おうじょさまだという妄想もうそうにとらわれている。

    That girl is under the delusion that she is a princess.

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  2. 被害ひがい妄想もうそうに囚とらわれるな。

    Don’t get paranoid.

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  3. 君きみは完全かんぜんな妄想もうそう状態じょうたいにあるんです。

    You’re completely delusional.

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Kanji in 妄想

  • 妄delusion; unnecessarilyOnモウ・ボウKunみだりに
  • 想idea; thoughtOnソウ・ソKunおもう

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