hallucination
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hallucination
- /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
From hallucinate + -ion, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.
noun hallucinations
- A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.
- The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.
- A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation. We first identify prominent modes of hallucination by conducting a systematic human study on generated responses which reveals one major source of hallucination as the (mis)-use of wrong entities to describe factual content (Kryscinski et al., 2020), a problem that persists when naively applying lan
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noun sensory perception of something that does not exist
| Español | alucinación, ilusión |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 환각 hwan'gak |
| 日本語 | 幻覚 genkaku, 幻想 gensō |
| 中文 | 幻覺 /幻觉 huànjué, 幻想 huànxiǎng |
| हिन्दी | विभ्रांति vibhrānti, विभ्रम vibhram, मतिभ्रम matibhram, मतिभ्रांति matibhrānti, भ्रम bhram, भ्रांति bhrānti |
| Português | alucinação |
| Français | hallucination, illusion |
| Deutsch | Halluzination, Wahnvorstellung, Sinnestäuschung, Illusion |
| Italiano | allucinazione |
| Ελληνικά | παραίσθηση paraísthisi |
| Русский | галлюцина́ция galljucinácija, иллю́зия illjúzija, наважде́ние navaždénije, глюк gljuk |
| العربية | هَلْوَسَة halwasa, وَهْم wahm, اِنْخِدَاع inḵidāʕ |
| עברית | הזיה |
noun act of hallucinating
| Español | alucinación |
|---|---|
| Português | alucinação |
| Deutsch | Halluzinieren |
| Ελληνικά | παραίσθηση paraísthisi |
noun an incorrect but confident response given by artifical intelligence
| العربية | هَلْوَسَة halwasa |
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Talk about this word "hallucination." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hallucination. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. hallucination. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hallucination "hallucination." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hallucination.Cite this
@misc{hallucination_2026,
title = {hallucination},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hallucination},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
