Hallucination

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 Translations

English

Etymology

Latin hallucinatio compare French hallucination

First usage in the English language Sir Thomas Browne

Noun

hallucination

1. The sensory perception of something that does not exist.
2. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

   Quotations

   • This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. - Addison

3. (Medicine): The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.

   Quotations

   • Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. - W. A. Hammond

Translations

• Telugu: భ్రాంతి (bhraaMti), భ్రమ (bhrama)

fr:hallucination it:hallucination fi:hallucination zh:hallucination