English-French translations for hallucination

• hallucination
  Vous parlez d'hallucinations, Monsieur Cohn-Bendit. You speak of hallucinations, Mr Cohn-Bendit.
  C'est à se demander si le rédacteur du rapport du Conseil n'est pas victime d'hallucinations. One wonders whether the person who drew up the Council's report was perhaps suffering from hallucinations.
• illusion

Definition of hallucination

• A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion
• The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder

Examples

• Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. - W. A. Hammond
• This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. - Joseph Addison

Related words

• hallucinate
• hallucinatory
• hallucinating
• hallucinated
• acoustic hallucination