"hear voices" meaning in All languages combined

See hear voices on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: hears voices [present, singular, third-person], hearing voices [participle, present], heard voices [participle, past], heard voices [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hear<,,heard> voices}} hear voices (third-person singular simple present hears voices, present participle hearing voices, simple past and past participle heard voices)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice. Related terms: hear things, things
    Sense id: en-hear_voices-en-verb-R237tHrE
  2. (idiomatic) Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-hear_voices-en-verb-1G3CdE7p Disambiguation of Religion: 0 100 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Psychiatry
Disambiguation of Psychiatry: 0 0

Inflected forms

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