hallucination
[/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/]
nounfemininepl: hallucinations / alucinações
alucinação
1. A false perception or belief that something is real when it exists only in the mind, often caused by mental illness, drugs, or high fever
The patient experienced vivid hallucinations after the high fever.
O paciente experimentou alucinações vívidas após a febre alta.
2. An experience in which one perceives something that is not actually present or not as it appears
Sleep deprivation can trigger hallucinations.
A privação de sono pode desencadear alucinações.
3. In AI and language models, the generation of plausible-sounding but false or fabricated information
The AI's hallucination produced incorrect citations.
A alucinação da IA produziu citações incorretas.
NYC Slang
trip / seeing things
Related Idioms & Phrases
have hallucinations
suffer from hallucinations
experience a hallucination
visual/auditory hallucination
alucinação coletiva (collective hallucination)
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