hallucinogen

See also: hallucinogén

English

Etymology

From hallucination +‎ -o- (interconsonantal) +‎ -gen (“producer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhæl.uːˈsɪn.ə.dʒən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /həˈluː.sɪ.nə.d͡ʒɛn/
• Hyphenation: hal‧lu‧cino‧gen

Noun

hallucinogen (plural hallucinogens)

1. Any substance tending to induce hallucination.

Hyponyms

• entheogen

Derived terms

• hallucinogenic
• hallucinogenlike
• hallucinogenre

Translations

that which causes hallucinations

• Bashkir: галлюциноген (gallyutsinogen)
• Catalan: al·lucinogen (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迷幻劑 / 迷幻剂 (míhuànjì)

• Czech: halucinogen m
• Dutch: hallucinogeen (nl)
• Estonian: hallutsinogeen
• Finnish: hallusinogeeni (fi)
• French: hallucinogène (fr) m
• German: Halluzinogen (de) n
• Greek: παραισθησιογόνο (el) n (paraisthisiogóno)
• Hungarian: hallucinogén (hu)
• Kazakh: галлюциноген (gallüsinogen)
• Korean: 환각제(幻覺劑) (ko) (hwan'gakje)
• Kyrgyz: галлюциноген (gallyutsinogen)
• Persian: توهم‌زا (tavahhom-zâ)
• Polish: halucynogen (pl) m
• Portuguese: alucinógeno (pt) m
• Russian: галлюциноге́н (ru) m (galljucinogén)
• Spanish: alucinógeno (es) m
• Swedish: hallucinogen (sv) c
• Turkish: halüsinojen
• Ukrainian: галюциноге́н m (haljucynohén)

Swedish

Noun

hallucinogen c

1. a hallucinogen

Declension

Declension of hallucinogen

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hallucinogen	hallucinogens
	definite	hallucinogenen	hallucinogenens
plural	indefinite	hallucinogener	hallucinogeners
	definite	hallucinogenerna	hallucinogenernas

Adjective

hallucinogen (not comparable)

1. hallucinogenic

Declension

Inflection of hallucinogen

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	hallucinogen	—	—
neuter singular	hallucinogent	—	—
plural	hallucinogena	—	—
masculine plural2	hallucinogene	—	—
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	hallucinogene	—	—
all	hallucinogena	—	—

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

• “hallucinogen”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “hallucinogen”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)