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hallucination

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hallucination

1 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

Were the voices real, or merely a hallucination?

Synonyms of hallucination

chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

Words Related to hallucination

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare

Phrases Synonymous with hallucination

castle in Spain, castle in the air

Near Antonyms of hallucination

actuality, fact, reality

2 a false idea or belief

the common hallucination that gluttony during the holiday season doesn't have consequences

Synonyms of hallucination

delusion, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, old wives' tale, untruth

Words Related to hallucination

fiction, pretense (or pretence)

distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstanding

misinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

sophism, sophistry

fib, half-truth, lie, story, tale

Antonyms of hallucination

Synonym Discussion of hallucination

delusion, illusion, hallucination, mirage mean something that is believed to be true or real but that is actually false or unreal. delusion implies an inability to distinguish between what is real and what only seems to be real, often as the result of a disordered state of mind.

- delusions of persecution

illusion implies a false ascribing of reality based on what one sees or imagines.

- an illusion of safety

hallucination implies impressions that are the product of disordered senses, as because of mental illness or drugs.

- suffered from terrifying hallucinations

mirage in its extended sense applies to an illusory vision, dream, hope, or aim.

- claimed a balanced budget is a mirage

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See words that rhyme with hallucination Dictionary: Definition of hallucination Medical Dictionary: Definition of hallucination Spanish Central: Translation of hallucination Nglish: Translation of hallucination for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of hallucination for Arabic speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about hallucination

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