hallucination : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hallucination	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hallucination
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hallucination n illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination" Synonym(s): delusion, hallucination an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hallucination \Hallu`cina"tion\, n. [L. hallucinatio: cf. F. hallucination.] 1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. --Addison.