Hallucinating means seeing or hearing things that are not there. Hallucinating with fever.
Fever, exhaustion and grief all cause it in people who are otherwise perfectly well. Somebody hallucinating usually knows something is wrong, which is what separates it from delusion.
1adjectivehallucinatingSeeing or hearing things that are not there.
“He was hallucinating by the third night without sleep.”
hallucinating is a state.
Latin
hallūcinātus
English
hallucinate
English, today
hallucinating
Built from
hallucinate 1604; Latin hallūcinātus, alternative form of alūcinātus, perfect active participle of alucinor (“to dream”); see -ate.
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