chimera

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1. chimera - Noun

2. Chimera - Proper noun

Meaning

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.

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Without democracy freedom is a chimera. Octavio Paz

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. Janos Bolyai

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera. Louis Pasteur

If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams. Jasper Fforde

What a chimera then is man What a novelty What a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. Blaise Pascal

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them. Germaine Greer

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