hallucination
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7.2
- noun
- /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/
:
ilusión
- He realized that his belief in the conspiracy was just a hallucination of his anxious mind.
- a collective hallucination
All these come from one thing, the socially induced hallucination of the separate self.
- All these come from one thing, the socially induced hallucination of the separate self.
- Ergo, you conclude that the brain, the consciousness, is some kind of fictional hallucination born of the brain.
- But that hallucination or that idea of the separate self creates anxiety.
- I thought, this is obviously hallucination, Doctors don't do that.
- Am I part of some big, you know, experiment or hallucination where I'm getting things wrong?
- And so so people, people call the hallucination.
- I would have been this most ridiculous, a flight of fancy hallucination.
- If we put the hallucination word aside, the belief that something is worth value is actually value and is the thing that helps money work.
Examples
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All these come from one thing, the socially induced hallucination of the separate self.
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The Surrealists were interested in hallucination and psychosis because of the presumed visionary character of these mental states.
Academic text (2009) -
- Tell me this is a hallucination too.
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It's not a hallucination, no.
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Even if all of us took a bottle each, it would never create a mass hallucination.
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Am I part of some big, you know, experiment or hallucination where I'm getting things wrong?
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But... couldn't this still be a hallucination from the drugs?
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For the believer, a vision is not a hallucination.
Academic text (2013) -
True, people have hallucinations; they sometimes believe that what they are in fact making up has independent sensory existence.
Academic text (1991) -
They're not hallucinations, they're memories.
Synonyms
453
3.7
A wrong idea that many people believe
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4.6
A false idea or appearance that makes you think something is true
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6.7
A strong false belief that someone still has even when it is not true
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7.2
A wrong belief that comes from bad reasoning
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4.2
An idea that is not true because people understand something wrongly
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6.8
A wrong idea about something
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5.6
An idea that is not true because of wrong thinking or misunderstanding
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7.5
A wrong idea someone has about something
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6.5
A belief based on false information
An idea that is wrong
A false idea that many people believe
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.9
Seeing things that are not really there because the brain sends wrong signals
- Jargon
An image made by a computer that looks real but is not based on real data
How False
Surface Forms
Morphology
hallucination = hallucinate (semi-transparent) = hallucin + ation
The morphological formation is regular, but the sense 'a mistaken belief' is a figurative extension from sensory illusion and may not be fully predictable for all learners.
Etymology
Hallucination comes from the Latin word hallucinari, which meant 'to wander in the mind'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of a belief that has 'wandered' away from reality and is not based on fact.