noun
hallucination
huh-loo-sih-NAY-shun/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃn/
A perception that seems real but has no external source.
The character experiences a hallucination of a bird indoors.
Etymology
The Latin base described wandering in the mind, and the suffix made this an action noun. In the selected sense, that mental wandering becomes a sensory experience without anything present to perceive.
In context
hallucinations are seeing or hearing something that is not there as a rule if the hallucination is not upsetting don't intervene connect don't correct
More examples
- She described the hallucination to her clinician.
- Several hallucinations occurred in the account.
- The study distinguished hallucination from an illusion.
Forms
hallucination · hallucinations
hallucinate verb — perceive something without an external source