hallucination

1. 1.

   illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder

   Broaderdelusion

   Narrowerauditory hallucinationpseudohallucinationtripvisual hallucination
2. 2.

   a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

   “he has delusions of competence”

   “his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination”

   Synonymsdelusion

   Broadermisconception

   Narrowerdisorientation
3. 3.

   an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode

   “he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination”

   Broaderobject

Other forms of hallucination

plural

hallucinations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hallucination

What does hallucination mean?

hallucination means "illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hallucination?

hallucination has 5 syllables: hal-lu-ci-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /həˌlusəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for hallucination?

Close synonyms include delusion. 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 hallucination a common word?

hallucination is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hallucination?

73 words rhyme with hallucination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.