hallucination
11hallucination — Formerly known as hallucinatio, allucinatio, alucinatio, * alusia, * fallacia, * idolum, and *phantasma. Hallucination can be defined as a percept, experienced by a waking individual, in the absence of an appropriate stimulus from the… …
12hallucination — hallucinational, hallucinative /heuh looh seuh nay tiv, neuh tiv/, adj. /heuh looh seuh nay sheuhn/, n. 1. a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to… …
13Hallucination — L hallucination est définie classiquement comme étant une « perception sans objet », et plus précisément selon Henri Ey comme une « perception sans objet à percevoir ». Elle se distingue d une illusion, qui est une perception… …
14hallucination — (al lu si na sion ; en vers, de six syllabes) s. f. Terme de médecine. Perception de sensations sans aucun objet extérieur qui les fasse naître. • L hallucination, dans cette conjoncture, Vous ôte les clartés d une telle aventure, HAUTER. Crisp …
15hallucination — [[t]həlu͟ːsɪne͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] hallucinations 1) N VAR A hallucination is the experience of seeing something that is not really there because you are ill or have taken a drug. The drug induces hallucinations at high doses... Hallucination is common… …
16hallucination — The occurrence of an experience in itself indistinguishable from a perception of something, but without an appropriate external cause. Hallucination is sometimes distinguished from pseudohallucination, in which the experience occurs but is not… …
17hallucination — UK [həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n] / US [həˌlus(ə)nˈeɪʃ(ə)n] noun Word forms hallucination : singular hallucination plural hallucinations a) [countable] something that you think you can see or hear that is not really there, especially because of an illness… …
18hallucination — noun /həˌluːsəˈneɪʃən/ a) A sensory perception of something that does not exist, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion. , Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common… …
19hallucination — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ mild ▪ vivid ▪ auditory, visual ▪ drug induced VERB + HALLUCINATION ▪ …
20hallucination — noun are you sure that what you saw wasn t a hallucination? Syn: delusion, illusion, figment of the imagination, vision, apparition, mirage, chimera, fantasy; (hallucinations) delirium, phantasmagoria; informal trip, pink elephants …
