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Illusory (adj) means not real, though it may seem to be; based on an illusion.

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Not real, though it may seem to be; based on an illusion.

"Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman’s sole purpose." — Anna Silman, Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican (2025)

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