Hallucination

[hə,luːsɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [hə,lusɪ'neʃən]

Definition

(noun.) an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; 'he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination'.

(noun.) illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder.

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Definition

(n.) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

(n.) 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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Error, blunder, mistake, fallacy.[2]. Illusion, delusion, monomania, self-deception, phantasm, aberration.

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Definition

n. error: delusion: the perception of things that do not externally exist.—v.i. Hallū′cinate to suffer illusion.—adjs. Hallū′cinative Hallū′cinatory partaking of or tending to produce hallucination.

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