hallucination
noun/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/
Frequency rank: #14,490 most common English word
Meaning
a perception of something that does not exist, experienced as if it were real.
Example sentence
After three days without sleep, he began to experience hallucination and saw figures that were not there.
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