hallucination

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  1. noun Perception of visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory experiences without an external stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug.
  2. noun The objects or events so perceived.
  3. noun A false or mistaken idea; a delusion.

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  • Okay, so the nickname for my hallucination wasn't that original or clever. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 06 - June 2001
  • For a moment he thought fatigue had produced some kind of hallucination--surely this lovely young woman could not be his stepmother's niece, Katherine Blair?
  • Everything that distracted him in his state of semi-hallucination was an irritation to him. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • The question is this: if everyone who uses this stuff sees the same hallucination, is it a hallucination or a glimpse into a supernatural realm - a question that is never answered [and could have made the movie something much better]. —  EclipseMagazine
  • '' It seems like many of these people want to have some kind of warning, like a hallucination or something, of their death, '' said Paulson, a nurse. —  News/local from www.chieftain.com
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  1. = French hallucination = Spanish alucinacion = Portuguese allucinação = Italian allucinazione, from Latin hallucinatio(n-), allucinatio(n-), better alucinatio(n-), from alucinari, wander in mind, dream, talk idly: see hallucinate.
 

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