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Meaning of "hallucination" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALLUCINATION

hallucination  [həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALLUCINATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hallucination is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HALLUCINATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hallucination

Hallucination

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of apparent stimulus that has qualities of real perception. Hallucinations are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. They are distinguished from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control; and pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, but is not under voluntary control. Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted stimulus is given some additional significance. Hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality — visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive, equilibrioceptive, nociceptive, thermoceptive and chronoceptive. A mild form of hallucination is known as a disturbance, and can occur in most of the senses above. These may be things like seeing movement in peripheral vision, or hearing faint noises and/or voices. Auditory hallucinations are very common in paranoid schizophrenia.

Definition of hallucination in the English dictionary

The definition of hallucination in the dictionary is the alleged perception of an object when no object is present, occurring under hypnosis, in some mental disorders, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HALLUCINATION


combination
ˌkɒmbɪˈneɪʃən
contamination
kənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃən
coordination
kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən
designation
ˌdɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən
destination
ˌdɛstɪˈneɪʃən
determination
dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən
discrimination
dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪʃən
domination
ˌdɒmɪˈneɪʃən
donation
dəʊˈneɪʃən
elimination
ɪˌlɪmɪˈneɪʃən
examination
ɪɡˌzæmɪˈneɪʃən
explanation
ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən
illumination
ɪˌluːmɪˈneɪʃən
imagination
ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃən
nation
ˈneɪʃən
nomination
ˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən
origination
ɒˌrɪdʒɪˈneɪʃən
resignation
ˌrɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən
termination
ˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən
vaccination
ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALLUCINATION

hallower
Hallowmas
Hallowmass
halloysite
Hallstatt
Hallstattian
hallucal
hallucinant
hallucinate
hallucinational
hallucinative
hallucinator
hallucinatory
hallucinogen
hallucinogenic
hallucinosis
hallux
hallux valgus
hallway

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALLUCINATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation
federation
formation

Synonyms and antonyms of hallucination in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HALLUCINATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hallucination» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hallucination

Translation of «hallucination» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALLUCINATION

Find out the translation of hallucination to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hallucination from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hallucination» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

幻觉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

alucinación
570 millions of speakers

English

hallucination
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

माया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هلوسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

галлюцинация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alucinação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অমূলপ্রত্যক্ষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hallucination
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Halusinasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Halluzination
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

幻覚
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

환각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hallucination
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự tưởng tượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாயத்தோற்றம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भ्रम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sanrı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

allucinazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

omamy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

галюцинація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

halucinație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραίσθηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hallusinasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hallucination
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hallusinasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hallucination

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALLUCINATION»

The term «hallucination» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.801 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALLUCINATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hallucination» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hallucination» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hallucination

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8 QUOTES WITH «HALLUCINATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hallucination.
1
Scott Adams
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
2
William Gibson
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
3
Siri Hustvedt
I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom.
4
James Howard Kunstler
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.
5
Marc Maron
I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
6
Bertrand Russell
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
7
Marguerite Young
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
8
Jonathan Zittrain
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALLUCINATION»

Discover the use of hallucination in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hallucination and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion
In the first monograph in this exciting area since then, William Fish develops a comprehensive disjunctive theory, incorporating detailed accounts of the three core kinds of visual experience--perception, hallucination, and illusion--and an ...
New Zealand William Fish Lecturer in Philosophy Massey University, 2009
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Final Hallucination
A WORLD THAT NO ONE, OR NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS TO BE. AND FOR TWENTY YEAR OLD MATT PHILLIPS THIS IS THE VERY THING THAT WILL CHANGE HIS LIFE, AND THE FATE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOREVER, THAT'S IF HE CAN SURVIVE HIS "FINAL HALLUCINATION.
Matthew Maggard, 2011
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Hallucination
Poems.
William Fuller, 2011
4
Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Fiona Macpherson, Dimitris Platchias, 2013
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I Was a Teenage Hallucination #1
Imagine and join us in screaming "I Was a Teenage Hallucination!" The First Volume of the Roadkill Wonder Cycle.
Jahred Rum, 2008
6
Bipolar in Order: Looking at Depression, Mania, ...
By examining all states of depression, mixed states, and mania unflinchingly and deeply, Wootton arrives at conclusions that challenge the current paradigm.
Tom Wootton, 2009
7
Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination
A look at hallucination reveals the cartography of the hallucinatory world through case histories that feature a pool shark, a nurse who sees swastikas on her patients' bedsheets as the result of sleep deprivation, and others. 25,000 first ...
Ronald K. Siegel, 1992
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Fish's Clinical Psychopathology: Signs and Symptoms in ...
Patients can distinguish both features from each other and crucially, the hallucination does not occur without the stimulus. Some patients who discover that noises induce hallucinatory voices put plugs in their ears to reduce the intensity of the ...
F. J. Fish, Patricia R. Casey, Brendan Kelly, 2007
9
Requiem: A Hallucination
While waiting for a private midnight assignation on a quay by the Tagus, the narrator spend his day, enjoying a series of chance encounters with such colorful characters as a young junky, a gypsy, a lost taxi driver, the ghost of the long ...
Antonio Tabucchi, 2002
10
Hallucinations
Here, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our ...
Oliver Sacks, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALLUCINATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hallucination is used in the context of the following news items.
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Don't be fooled, legal highs are dangerous
“I have witnessed a change in the extremity of the symptoms presented in people who have taken these legal highs, such as hallucination, ... «Oldham Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
Absinthe cast pokes fun at Cirque du Soleil ahead of Perth shows
"The whole theme of the show is that this guy drinks absinthe, has a hallucination about this scandalous, sexy circus world. It's got pop, it's got ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
3
Surf the UK: Listen to Menace Beach's guitar-pop ripper 'Super …
The song's moniker is derived from a flu-fever hallucination guitarist/vocalist Liza Violet experienced while on tour, and the sound is an insanely ... «Vanyaland, Jul 15»
4
Comic Book Review – Roche Limit: Clandestiny #3
The forest feeds upon the wants and desires of the people who pass through, and Danny notes that they're more real than just a hallucination ... «Flickering Myth, Jul 15»
5
Painting the Nocturnal Journeys of Solitary Travelers
The solipsism may not be broken by this hallucination on the road. The moon acts as another character and is featured prominently in two of the ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
6
Movie Review – Love & Mercy (2015)
The ambition is admirable, but it falls short – even when it boldly attempts a 2001/Slaughterhouse 5 hallucination sequence to tie them both ... «Flickering Myth, Jul 15»
7
Menace Beach announces new EP, shares fuzzy rocker “Super …
Due out on October 2nd through Memphis Industries, the EP takes its name from a “flu-fever hallucination” experienced by band member Liza ... «Consequence of Sound, Jul 15»
8
'In Search of Sir Thomas Browne,' by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Among his 784 credited neologisms are “electricity,” “hallucination,” “medical,” “ferocious,” “deductive” and “swaggy.” (Other coinages failed to ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
9
11 best ways to get high in video games
Returning to the Visionary, you have the choice about being honest about your bizarre homoerotic hallucination or keeping it to yourself. gta-v ... «Geek, Jul 15»
10
Tonight on 'Teen Wolf' season 5, episode 4: His condition was terminal
... fade into the Dread Doctors. Whether or not this is a hallucination or premonition we don't know. But with Lydia, either one could be possible. «Hypable, Jul 15»

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