hallucinatory.

1. Relating to perceptions experienced without a corresponding external stimulus.

2. Having the vivid, distorted, or dreamlike quality associated with hallucinations.

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Words that belong together

• hallucinatory experience
• hallucinatory voice

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She described a hallucinatory voice that seemed to come from the empty chair.

The clinician asked how long the hallucinatory experiences had lasted.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable in its clinical classification; degree comparisons are possible in figurative use. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.