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as in visions
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
were the voices real, or merely a hallucination?
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as in delusions
a false idea or belief
the common hallucination that gluttony during the holiday season doesn't have consequences
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Recent Examples of hallucinations
Instead of gradually boiling into insanity, the film hits fever pitch hallucinations right away and quickly exhausts itself attempting to keep pace.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Psychosis — marked by hallucinations, delusions or loss of reality — is another sign.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Other reputational risks companies mentioned included privacy and data risks, hallucinations, competitive threats, and issues with bias and fairness.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
He is drawn into a web of disappearances of local women, hallucinations, and high-tech intrigue, and his grip on reality and personal welfare unravels as he is forced to confront sinister forces and secrets hiding in plain sight.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
So far, the majority of AI hallucinations in Charlotin’s database come from pro se litigants, but many have also come from lawyers themselves.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
In a bit of irony, though, Grok isn’t immune to errors, including generating hallucinations and praising Hitler.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
In the age of Agentic AI, hallucinations translate into process errors, which, if left unchecked, can lead to potentially harmful actions.
—Marco Argenti, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Use Ontologies And Knowledge Graphs For Traceability Implementing an ontology ensures AI becomes more efficient and accurate, has fewer hallucinations, and comes with traceability.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Psychosis — marked by hallucinations, delusions or loss of reality — is another sign.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Other reputational risks companies mentioned included privacy and data risks, hallucinations, competitive threats, and issues with bias and fairness.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
He is drawn into a web of disappearances of local women, hallucinations, and high-tech intrigue, and his grip on reality and personal welfare unravels as he is forced to confront sinister forces and secrets hiding in plain sight.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
So far, the majority of AI hallucinations in Charlotin’s database come from pro se litigants, but many have also come from lawyers themselves.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
In a bit of irony, though, Grok isn’t immune to errors, including generating hallucinations and praising Hitler.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
In the age of Agentic AI, hallucinations translate into process errors, which, if left unchecked, can lead to potentially harmful actions.
—Marco Argenti, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Use Ontologies And Knowledge Graphs For Traceability Implementing an ontology ensures AI becomes more efficient and accurate, has fewer hallucinations, and comes with traceability.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinations
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That credo reasserts itself as Polly begins to be haunted by visions of her loved ones.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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Esmail seems too enamored of his own (tiresome) visions of Nifty Things That Might Happen During an Apocalypse to actually bother fleshing any of these characters out.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Psychosis — marked by hallucinations, delusions or loss of reality — is another sign.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
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Users who spend hours talking to the bot report being led to various delusions.—
Gili Malinsky,
CNBC,
6 Oct. 2025
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While magicians use illusions to make objects float, physicists pursue levitation for its practical advantages.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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Audience online have embraced the musical's campy humor, jaw-dropping stage illusions and sing-along score, with bootleg of the production going viral on TikTok and YouTube.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Her story, told only by others, generated myths and legends.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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At the Flow Space Women’s Health Summit on October 14 in Los Angeles, three expert doctors convened for a panel to bust myths and talk about what role GLP-1s play in the emerging science about metabolic health.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
13 Oct. 2025
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Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
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Dominant culture echoed with racist fantasies like of Birth of a Nation (1915; based on a novel and play of 1905) and Gone With The Wind (novel 1936, movie 1939).—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025
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In that same period, Chelsea have made more errors leading to shots in the Premier League than any other side.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Automation bias can lead to critical errors of commission (acting on flawed advice) and omission (failing to act when a system misses something), particularly in high-stakes environments.—
Nelson Lim,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Though her identity is not at first known to Benedict, the woman turns out to be Sophie Baek, a secretive maid with big dreams.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
13 Oct. 2025
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And dreams, especially ones decades in the making, don't end without a fight.—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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In pieces on patriotism as a kind of madness, on the long history of Polish and Russian colonizations and cultural appropriations of Ukraine, on the ways communities fantasize and share their daydreams, and others, Janion creates wormholes between past and present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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Ellen retreats to her room and daydreams of her father, who understood his headstrong daughter.—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Hallucinations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinations. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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