Word Meanings - HALLUCINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement

Additional info about word: HALLUCINATION

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. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. W. A. Hammond. (more info) 1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HALLUCINATION)

• Aberration
• Wandering
• divergence
• deviation
• desultoriness
• rambling
• disconnectedness
• hallucination
• inconsecutiveness
• idiocy
• insanity
• exception
• abnormity
• Alienation
• Insanity
• aberration
• derangement
• imbecility
• Dream
• Trance
• vision
• fancy
• reverie
• romance
• Error
• Fault
• mistake
• blunder
• falsity
• deception
• fallacy
• untruth
• Illusion
• mockery
• delusion
• phantasm
• myth
• false show
• error

Related words: (words related to HALLUCINATION)

• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• PHANTASM
  1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of
• ABERRATION
  A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit,
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• BRAMBLING
  The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.