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Etymology[]
Derives from verb to hallucinate, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.
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Hallucination ({{{1}}})
- 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 phenomena of insanity. - W. A. Hammond
- The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
- This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. - Joseph Addison
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sensory perception of something that does not exist
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act of hallucinating
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French[]
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Hallucination f. (plural Hallucinations)
Related terms[]
- hallucinant
- hallucinatoire
- halluciné
- halluciner
- hallucinogène
- hallucinose
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