'Hallucination' definitions:
Definition of 'hallucination'
(from WordNet)
noun
Illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
noun
A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination" [syn: delusion, hallucination]
noun
An object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"
Definition of 'Hallucination'
From: GCIDE
- Hallucination \Hal*lu`ci*na"tion\ (-n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. hallucinatio: cf. F. hallucination.]
- 1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. [1913 Webster]
- This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. [1913 Webster]
- Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. --W. A. Hammond. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hallucination'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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