hallucinosis

[ huh-loo-suh-noh-sis ]

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.

hallucinosis

/ həˌluːsɪˈnəʊsɪs /

noun

1. psychiatry a mental disorder the symptom of which is hallucinations, commonly associated with the ingestion of alcohol or other drugs

Word History and Origins

Origin of hallucinosis¹

First recorded in 1900–05; hallucin(ation) + -osis

Example Sentences

His “musical hallucinosis,” as he called it, alarmed him at first, then gradually became a part of his interior life.

From New York Times

Other hallucinations associated with alcohol withdrawal, or alcoholic hallucinosis, tend to be brief and involve hearing accusatory or threatening voices.

From New York Times

In alcoholic hallucinosis the patient has delusions of persecution and hears voices accusing him of all kinds of wrong-doing.

From Project Gutenberg

Now we understand why the patient in an acute alcoholic hallucinosis almost invariably hears voices making homosexual accusations.

From Project Gutenberg

The correlation is suggestive with the probably auditory hallucinosis.

From Project Gutenberg