hallucination | Definition of hallucination

Synonyms and Antonyms of hallucination

1 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

were the voices real, or merely a hallucination?

Synonyms of hallucination

chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

Words Related to hallucination

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare

Phrases Synonymous with hallucination

castle in Spain, castle in the air

Near Antonyms of hallucination

actuality, fact, reality

2 a false idea or belief

the common hallucination that gluttony during the holiday season doesn't have consequences

Synonyms of hallucination

delusion, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, old wives' tale, untruth

Words Related to hallucination

fiction, pretense (or pretence)

distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstanding

misinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

sophism, sophistry

fib, half-truth, lie, story, tale

Antonyms of hallucination