hallucinatory
[huh-loo-suh-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
- pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
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Origin of hallucinatory
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Contemporary Examples
“I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours,” Dowd wrote in the column.
Maureen Dowd: ‘I Love’ Pot Billboard Using My Image, Will Use It for Christmas CardAbby Haglage
September 17, 2014
I barely made it to my couch, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight minutes.
The leftist Peace Now lobby referred to it as hallucinatory.
She then won an Oscar… in a hallucinatory vision during the illness, leading her to pursue a career in acting.
Another aspect of the book is a certain degree of hallucinatory imagery, influenced by how Junger spent the 1950s.
Historical Examples
She had insight into the hallucinatory nature of these visions.
Benign StuporsAugust Hoch
There are no hallucinatory phases in the conditions or causes.
Visual IllusionsMatthew Luckiesh
Or again, the sounds may be hallucinatory and only some mortals may have the power of hearing them.
Cock Lane and Common-SenseAndrew Lang
It seems to have been hallucinatory, otherwise all would have shared the experience.
Cock Lane and Common-SenseAndrew Lang
The first wish must have been an hallucinatory occupation of the memory for gratification.
Dream PsychologySigmund Freud
Word Origin and History for hallucinatory
adj.
1830, from hallucinat-, past participle stem of Latin hallucinari (see hallucinate) + -ory.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
hallucinatory
(hə-lōō′sə-nə-tôr′ē)- Of or characterized by hallucination.
- Inducing or causing hallucination.
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