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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A brief but vivid visual or auditory experience that is recognised by the experiencer as being unreal.
2. 2
   an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal wordnet

Etymology

From pseudo- + hallucination.

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