hallucination
Meanings
Plural: hallucinations
Noun
- illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
- a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
- "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"
- an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode
- "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"
- A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.
- The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
- A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation.
Origin / Etymology
Derives from the verb hallucinate, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.
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