hallucination

noun/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/

Frequency rank: #14,490 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a perception of something that does not exist, experienced as if it were real.

Illustration for the English word “hallucination”

Example sentence

After three days without sleep, he began to experience a strange hallucination and saw figures that were not there.

Synonyms & related words

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