hallucination
pronunciation
How to pronounce hallucination in British English:
UK [həˌlu:sɪˈneɪʃn]
How to pronounce hallucination in American English:
US [həˌlusəˈneʃən]
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- Noun:
- illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
- a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
- an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode
Word Origin
- hallucination (n.)
- "a seeing or hearing something which is not there," 1640s, from Latin hallucinationem (nominative hallucinatio), earlier alucinatio, noun of action from past participle stem of alucinari (see hallucinate). Related: Hallucinations.
Example
- 1. How much of reality is a consensual hallucination ?
- 2. Leadership involves convincing employees and investors that the ceo has something called a vision , a type of optimistic hallucination that can come true only in an environment in which the ceo is massively overcompensated and the employees have learned to be less selfish .
- 3. Now those few anarchic days feel instead like a mass hallucination .
- 4. More work is needed to establish whether caffeine consumption , and nutrition in general , has an impact on those kinds of hallucination that cause distress .
- 5. In the ninth century , almost no one believed that witches could make bad weather , and almost everyone believed that night-flying was a hallucination .