hallucination

English

Etymology

Derives from the verb hallucinate, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

hallucination (countable and uncountable, plural hallucinations)

1. A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.

   • Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. - W. A. Hammond

2. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.

   • This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. - Joseph Addison

Translations

sensory perception of something that does not exist

• Afrikaans: hallusinasie
• Arabic: هَلْوَسَة (ar) f (halwasa), وَهْم m (wahm), اِنْخِدَاع m (inḵidāʕ)
• Armenian: հալյուցինացիա (hy) (halyucʻinacʻia), զգայախաբություն (zgayaxabutʻyun), զգայապատրանք (hy) (zgayapatrankʻ)
• Azerbaijani: halusunasiya, sanrı
• Basque: haluzinazio, eldarnio
• Belarusian: галюцына́цыя f (haljucynácyja)
• Bulgarian: халюцина́ция (bg) f (haljucinácija)
• Catalan: al·lucinació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幻覺／幻觉 (zh) (huànjué), 幻觉 (zh) (huànjué), 幻想 (zh) (huànxiǎng)

• Czech: halucinace (cs) f
• Danish: hallucination
• Dutch: hallucinatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: halucino
• Estonian: hallutsinatsioon
• Finnish: aistiharha (fi), harha-aistimus (fi), hallusinaatio (fi), harhanäky, näköharha (fi)
• French: hallucination (fr) f, illusion (fr) f
• Galician: alucinación (gl) f
• German: Halluzination (de) f, Wahnvorstellung (de) f, Sinnestäuschung f, Illusion (de) f
• Greek: παραίσθηση (el) f (paraísthisi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: הזיה (he)
• Hungarian: hallucináció (hu), érzékcsalódás (hu)
• Irish: bréagchéadfa (ga) f, éiclips m, mearú súl m, meascán mearaí m, speabhraíd f
• Italian: allucinazione (it)
• Japanese: 幻覚 (ja) (げんかく, genkaku), 幻想 (ja) (げんそう, gensō)
• Korean: 환각 (ko) (hwan'gak) (幻覺 (ko))
• Lithuanian: haliucinacija f
• Luxembourgish: Halluzinatioun (lb) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hallusinasjon m

  Nynorsk: hallusinasjon m

• Portuguese: alucinação (pt) f
• Russian: галлюцина́ция (ru) f (galljucinácija), иллю́зия (ru) f (illjúzija), наважде́ние (ru) n (navaždénije), глюк (ru) m (gljuk) (slang)
• Sotho: pono tse fosahetseng
• Spanish: alucinación (es) f, ilusión (es) f
• Swedish: hallucination (sv) c
• Thai: ภาพลวงตา (paa pluang dtaa)
• Turkish: sanrı (tr), halüsinasyon (tr)
• Welsh: rhithweledigaeth f

act of hallucinating

• Afrikaans: hallusineer
• Bulgarian: халюциниране n (haljucinirane)
• Catalan: al·lucinació (ca) f
• Finnish: harha-aistimus (fi), hallusinaatio (fi)
• German: Halluzinieren n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: παραίσθηση (el) f (paraísthisi)
• Portuguese: alucinação (pt) f
• Sotho: phofa
• Spanish: alucinación (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Hindi: भ्रम (hi) (bhram)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Telugu: భ్రాంతి (te) (bhrānti), భ్రమ (te) (bhrama)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hallūcinātiō; synchronically analysable as halluciner +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: hallucinations

Noun

hallucination f (plural hallucinations)

1. hallucination

Related terms

• hallucinant
• hallucinatoire
• halluciné
• halluciner
• hallucinogène
• hallucinose

Further reading

• “hallucination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.