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hallucination|hæl(j)uːsɪˈneɪʃən|
[ad. late L. ālūcinātiōn-em (all-, hall-), n. of action f. ālūcinārī: see hallucinate v. Cf. F. hallucination (Dict. Acad. 1835).]
1. The mental condition of being deceived or mistaken, or of entertaining unfounded notions; with a and pl., an idea or belief to which nothing real corresponds; an illusion.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. 70 Notions..arising from the deceptions and hallucinations of sense. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. v. xvi. 198 The Exposition is a mere hallucination. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 33 Reason..is not swept away by the hallucinations of sentiment.
2. Path. and Psychol. The apparent perception (usually by sight or hearing) of an external object when no such object is actually present. (Distinguished from illusion in the strict sense, as not necessarily involving a false belief.)
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xviii. 153 If vision be abolished it is called cæcitas, or blindnesse, if depraved and receive its objects erroneously, Hallucination. 1859Hulme tr. De Boismont's Hallucinations Introd. 7 The most celebrated men have been liable to hallucinations, without their conduct offering any signs of mental alienation. 1886Gurney Phantasms of Living I. 459 The definition of a sensory hallucination would thus be a percept which lacks, but which can only by distinct reflection be recognised as lacking, the objective basis which it suggests. |