hallucination

Noun

Meaning

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

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

delusion phantom maya mirage oasis chimera revenant derangement wraith REM sleep spectre daydream phantasy mania error
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Antonyms

world fact experience cosmos creation reality
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Hypernyms

object misconception delusion psychotic belief

Hyponyms

trip disorientation freak out acousma pseudohallucination auditory hallucination

Phrases with the word

visual hallucination mass hallucination graphic hallucination massive hallucination

Examples

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. William Gibson

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell

I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. Jack Kerouac

There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination. Northrop Frye

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future. Jaggi Vasudev

A delightful hallucination. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hallucinate hallucinating hallucinatingly hallucinational hallucinationy hallucinative