different between lunacy vs hallucination

English

Etymology

From lunatic +? -cy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?lu?.n?.si /, /?lju?.n?.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?lu?.n?.si /

Noun

lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural lunacies)

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

Synonyms

• (state of being mad): insanity, madness, craziness, craze

Translations

English

Etymology

Derives from the verb hallucinate, from Latin hallucinatus. Compare French hallucination. The first known usage in the English language is from Sir Thomas Browne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??lu?s??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

hallucination (countable and uncountable, plural hallucinations)

1. A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
   • 1871, William Alexander Hammond, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System

     Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.

2. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.

   • This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hall?cin?ti?; synchronically analysable as halluciner +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.ly.si.na.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: hallucinations

Noun

hallucination f (plural hallucinations)

1. hallucination

Related terms

• hallucinant
• hallucinatoire
• halluciné
• halluciner
• hallucinogène
• hallucinose

Further reading

• “hallucination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).