VISUAL HALLUCINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visual hallucination mean? 

• VISUAL HALLUCINATION (noun)
  The noun VISUAL HALLUCINATION has 1 sense:

1. illusory visual perception

  Familiarity information: VISUAL HALLUCINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUAL HALLUCINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Illusory visual perception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("visual hallucination" is a kind of...):

hallucination (illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visual hallucination"):

chromatism (hallucinatory perception of colored lights)

pink elephants (any visual hallucination arising from heavy drinking)

zoopsia (visual hallucination of animals; sometimes occurring in delirium tremens)