auditory hallucination

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   illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds

   Synonymsacousma

   Broaderhallucination

Questions about auditory hallucination

What does auditory hallucination mean?

auditory hallucination means "illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds".

What is another word for auditory hallucination?

Close synonyms include acousma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auditory hallucination a common word?

auditory hallucination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.