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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder;

2. a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea;
- Example: "he has delusions of competence"
- Example: "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"
[syn: delusion, hallucination]

3. an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode;
- Example: "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hallucination \Hal*lu`ci*na"tion\ (-n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. hallucinatio: cf. F. hallucination.] 1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. [1913 Webster] This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. [1913 Webster] Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. --W. A. Hammond. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hallucination n 1: illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder 2: a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination" [syn: delusion, hallucination] 3: an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"