What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Hallucination vs Chimera - What's the difference?

hallucination | chimera | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between hallucination and chimera

is that hallucination is a sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion while chimera is chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.

As a proper noun Chimera is

one of the many fantastical offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster represented as vomiting flames. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a dragon for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.

hallucination

English

(wikipedia hallucination)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
  • :* Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. -
  • The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
  • :* This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. -

    • chimera

    English

    (wikipedia chimera)

    Alternative forms

    * chimaera *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mythology) Chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals
  • A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author
  • (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes
  • (architecture) A grotesque, like a gargoyle but without a spout for rainwater
  • (usually chimaera ) A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin

    • Synonyms

    * (fish) ghost shark, ratfish, rabbitfish

    Derived terms

    * chimeral * chimeric * chimerism * tetragametic chimera * Chimera: the name of one of the ships of

    See also

    * Chimaera * ----