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Lunacy vs Hallucination - What's the difference?

lunacy | hallucination | Related terms |

Lunacy is a related term of hallucination.


As nouns the difference between lunacy and hallucination

is that lunacy is (of a person or group of people) the state of being mad, insanity while 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.

lunacy

English

Noun

  • (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
  • # a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
  • # insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
  • Something deeply misguided.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being mad) insanity

    Derived terms

    * lunatic

    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. -