Synonyms for hallucination

12 synonyms

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Noun

delusion, vision, delirium, illusion, dream, phantasm, insanity, confabulation, self-deception, chimera, aberration, fallacy

Definitions

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

Related words

Phrases: auditory hallucination

Forms

Plural: hallucinations → delusions, visions, deliriums, illusions…

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Hallucination or Hallucinations?

A hallucination is a false image or belief which has nothing, outside of the disordered mind, to suggest it; as, the hallucinations of delirium tremens.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

vision Her glasses let her see with twenty-twenty vision.
illusion This created an illusion that was hard to explain.
delusion That girl's under the delusion that she's a princess.
delirium It's all part of his narcissistic delirium.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
hallucination		rising
vision		rising
illusion		rising
delusion		rising
delirium		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters: dream¹
6 letters: vision²
7 letters: fallacy³, chimera³
8 letters: illusion³, insanity⁴, delusion³, delirium⁴, phantasm³
10 letters: aberration⁴
13 letters: confabulation⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vision² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: hallucination
Italiano: allucinazione
Español: alucinación