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Hallucination vs Insanity - What's the difference?

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Hallucination is a related term of insanity.


As nouns the difference between hallucination and insanity

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 insanity is the state of being insane; madness.

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. -

    • insanity

    English

    (wikipedia insanity)

    Noun

  • The state of being insane; madness.

    • Antonyms

    * sanity

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * insane