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noun
A brief but vivid visual or auditory experience that is recognised by the experiencer as being unreal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
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noun
an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hallucination
History
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der. Middle English pseudo- English pseudo- English hallucination English pseudohallucination From pseudo- + hallucination.
