HALLUCINATION
\hɐlˌuːsɪnˈe͡ɪʃən], \hɐlˌuːsɪnˈeɪʃən], \h_ɐ_l_ˌuː_s_ɪ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of HALLUCINATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Subjectively experienced sensations in the absence of an appropriate stimulus, but which are regarded by the individual as real. They may be of organic origin or associated with MENTAL DISORDERS.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A morbid error in one or more of the senses. Perception of objects, which do not in fact exert any impression on the external senses. Hallucination or delusion almost always, if not always, depends on disorder of the brain, but is not an index of insanity, unless the patient believes in the existence of the subject of the hallucination.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An erroneous mental or sensory perception without any external object actually existing to give rise to the perception.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe