Thesaurus: hallucination

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1. n. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
2. 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.
3. n. illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
4. n. a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
5. n. an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode
6. 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.
7. The perception of objects which have no reality, or ofsensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising fromdisorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and arecommon phenomena of insanity. W. A. Hammond.
8. n:100 n. illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder n. an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode