hallucinatory

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to, consisting of, or producing hallucinations

   The patient could distinguish the hallucinatory voice from sounds in the room.

2. 2
   adj

   strangely vivid, distorted, or dreamlike in a way that resembles a hallucination

   The film's hallucinatory imagery dissolves ordinary boundaries of time and place.

From hallucinate + -ory. Hallucinate derives from Latin alucinari or hallucinari ("to wander in mind, dream"). The adjective applies both clinically to hallucinations and figuratively to intensely unreal effects.

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