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noun

Hallucination n.

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. "This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber."

(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. "Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hallucination" Quotes from Famous Books

... valley, beyond the beaver marsh and on the farther shore of the lake she saw a little glimmer of light through the rift in the trees. She dared not believe in its reality at first. Perhaps it was a trick of her imagination only, a hallucination born of her starvation, child of her heartfelt prayer. She looked away, then peered again. But, yes—a tiny gleam of yellow light twinkled through the gloom! It was real, it was true! A gleam of hope ...

— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall

... GUSTAV. Hallucination—the hypnotising power of skirts! Or—the two of you may actually have become equals. The levelling process has been finished. Her capillarity has brought the water in both tubes to the same height.—Tell me [taking out his watch]: our talk has now lasted six hours, and your ...

— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg

... was Sylvia, a self-confessed wanton—and yet here was Sylvia as deeply intrenched in his heart as ever. This was a monstrous contradiction. One of these things must be a fact, the other a fantastic hallucination. ...

— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge

... and closed my eyes for a minute, overwhelmed with the problem which confronted me. And then—call it hallucination or what you will—I heard my mother's voice, as clearly as I ever heard it in life, repeating the words I had read weeks before in the letter she had left for me at ...

— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison

... confide her purpose to her father and mother, but she poured it in daily and nightly outbursts into the startled ears of Dora, to whom the hallucination sounded like a mocking retribution on the young Millars' old scornful estimate of shopkeepers and shops. May stuck to her point with a tenacity which, touching as it did a tender, trembling chord in Dora's heart, threatened also ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

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