angan-anganBahasa Indonesia

dream, ambition, aspiration, delusion, dreaming

Less common #16,219 of the corpus · 3 per million words · 12,887 occurrences

From angan (reduplication) · rare, #28,254

Noun

Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

English: dream, dreaming

Bahasa: mimpi, khayalan, lamunan

A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

English: pipe dream, dream

Bahasa: mimpi, khayalan

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2 more noun senses

An abstracted state of absorption

English: reverie, revery

Bahasa: impian, lamunan

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(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

English: delusion, psychotic belief

Bahasa: penipuan, khayalan, kepalsuan, delusi, perdayaan

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