Synonyms of hallucinations

hallucinations

noun

plural of hallucination

1

as in visions

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

were the voices real, or merely a hallucination?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• visions
• dreams
• illusions
• fantasies
• daydreams
• delusions
• nightmares
• ideas
• unrealities
• phantasms
• figments
• chimeras
• mirages
• pipe dreams
• castles in the air
• conceits
• castles in Spain
• fancies
• nonentities
• fictions
• concoctions
• fabrications
• visualizations
• inventions
• utopias
• brainchildren
• ignes fatui
• will-o'-the-wisps
• fables
• cloudlands
• cloud-cuckoo-lands
• daymares
• Shangri-las

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

2

as in delusions

a false idea or belief

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• delusions
• illusions
• myths
• errors
• superstitions
• misconceptions
• misunderstandings
• fallacies
• falsehoods
• untruths
• falsities
• misbeliefs
• distortions
• tales
• old wives' tales
• pretenses
• fictions
• lies
• factoids
• misinterpretations
• misperceptions
• inaccuracies
• misjudgments
• stories
• misinformation
• misrepresentations
• misstatements
• misapprehensions
• sophistries
• sophisms
• half-truths
• fibs
• miscomprehensions
• misreports
• misknowledges

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truths
• verities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hallucinations

Teaching students to actively hunt for hallucinations, logical gaps and hidden biases in AI drafts transforms them from passive consumers into critical editors—building deep domain mastery by evaluating why an AI answer fails. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Greg Derr / Pool via The Patriot Ledger Throughout the trial, Reddington argued that Clancy was in the throes of postpartum psychosis and acted on auditory hallucinations that compelled her to carry out the killings. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026

Psychosis is a complete break from reality and involves hallucinations and delusions. — Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

The prosecution’s experts disagreed, saying Clancy’s description of the voice was atypical of auditory hallucinations. — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Correspondent Faith Salie talks with experts about the symptoms, diagnosis and stigma surrounding postpartum psychosis; and with a mother whose experience of hallucinations and distorted reality soon after giving birth threatened her and her family. — David Morgan, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026

Marley Shelton is now Sheriff Judy Hicks, Gale reunites with Dewey after their divorce, Sidney comes home, and Skeet Ulrich reprises his role as Billy Loomis in his daughter Sam’s (Melissa Barrera) eerie hallucinations. — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026

As prosecutors pointed out, even Resnick has written that command hallucinations are easy to fabricate, and Clancy’s own accounts of the voice were inconsistent. — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026

Or how, unlike hallucinations, which are quickly forgotten, these encounters stay with survivors for decades. — Michael Collins, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026