About The Word Hallucination
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Hallucination
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What's The Definition Of Hallucination?
[n] an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"
[n] a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination" [n] illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder Synonyms | Synonyms for Hallucination: delusion Related Terms | Find terms related to Hallucination: aberration | agnosia | apparition | bamboozlement | befooling | block | blocking | bluffing | brainchild | bubble | calculated deception | chimera | circumvention | conning | deceiving | deception | deceptiveness | defrauding | delirium | delirium tremens | delusion | delusion of persecution | delusiveness | disorientation | dream | dupery | eidolon | enmeshment | ensnarement | entanglement | entrapment | fallaciousness | fallacy | falseness | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | fata morgana | fiction | figment | flight of ideas | flimflam | flimflammery | fond illusion | fooling | ghost | hallucinosis | hoodwinking | idle fancy | illusion | imagery | imagination | imagining | insubstantial image | invention | kidding | maggot | make-believe | mental block | mental confusion | mind-expansion | mirage | myth | nihilism | nihilistic delusion | outwitting | overreaching | paralogia | phantasm | phantom | psychological block | putting on | romance | self-deception | sick fancy | snow job | song and dance | spoofery | spoofing | subterfuge | swindling | thick-coming fancies | trickiness | tricking | trip | tripping | vapor | victimization | vision | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams | willful misconception | wishful thinking | wraith See Also | acousma | auditory hallucination | delusion | disorientation | freak out | misconception | object | pseudohallucination | psychotic belief | trip | visual hallucination Hallucination In Webster's Dictionary \Hal*lu`ci*na"tion\, n. [L. hallucinatio: cf. F.
hallucination.]
1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error;
mistake; a blunder.
This must have been the hallucination of the
transcriber. --Addison.
2. (Med.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or
of sensations which have no corresponding external cause,
arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in
delirium tremens; delusion.
Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral
derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.
--W. A.
Hammond.
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