Hallucination

Noun

 * 1) A sensory perception of something that does not exist, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
 * Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. - W. A. Hammond
 * 1) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
 * This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. - Joseph Addison

Adjectives for Hallucination
visionary; engendering.

Verbs for Hallucination
abolish—; dispose to—s; entertain—s; expel—; molest with—; produce—; suffer—s; wander into—; welter in—; wrap in—.

Synonyms for Hallucination
delusion, illusion, aberration, fantasy, chimera, fancy, mirage, phantasm.

Antonyms for Hallucination
reality, truth, existence.

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

Etymology
Derives from verb to hallucinate, from hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hallusinasie
 * Arabic: هلوسة,,  انخداع
 * Catalan: al·lucinació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, , , , näköharha
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,  Sinnestäuschung,
 * Greek:


 * Italian: allucinazione
 * Japanese: 幻覚,
 * Korean: 환각 (幻覺)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, иллюзия,  наваждение, глюк
 * Sotho: pono tse fosahetseng
 * Spanish: ,
 * Thai: ภาพลวงตา
 * Turkish: sanrı,


 * Afrikaans: hallusineer
 * Catalan: al·lucinació
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:


 * Portuguese:
 * Sotho: phofa
 * Spanish: alucinación


 * : भ्रम (Bhram)
 * : భ్రాంతి (bhraaMti), భ్రమ (bhrama)

Related terms

 * hallucinant
 * hallucinatoire
 * halluciné
 * halluciner
 * hallucinogène
 * hallucinose