"hallucinate" meaning in English

See hallucinate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /həˈl(j)uːsɪneɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hallucinate.wav Forms: hallucinates [present, singular, third-person], hallucinating [participle, present], hallucinated [participle, past], hallucinated [past]
Etymology: From Latin hallūcinātus, alternative form of alūcinātus, from alūcināri (to dream). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|hallūcinātus}} Latin hallūcinātus Head templates: {{en-verb}} hallucinate (third-person singular simple present hallucinates, present participle hallucinating, simple past and past participle hallucinated)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination. Tags: intransitive, transitive Synonyms: imagine, see things Translations (seem to perceive what is not really present): hallusineer (Afrikaans), халюцинирам (haljuciniram) (Bulgarian), al·lucinar (Catalan), 幻想 (huànxiǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), halucini (Esperanto), haluciniĝi (Esperanto), hallusinoida (Finnish), nähdä harhoja (Finnish), halluciner (French), მოლანდება (molandeba) (Georgian), halluzinieren (German), hallucinál (Hungarian), allucinare (Italian), hallūcinor (Latin), pohewa (Maori), alucinar (Portuguese), halucina (Romanian), phofa (Sotho), alucinar (Spanish), hallucinera (Swedish), భ్రమించు (bhramiñcu) (Telugu), భ్రాంతి చెందు (bhrānti cendu) (Telugu), halüsinasyon görmek (Turkish)
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  2. (artificial intelligence, of a model) To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data. Categories (topical): Artificial intelligence
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Derived forms: hallucination, hallucinative, hallucinatory Related terms: hallucinant, hallucinaut, hallucinogen, hallucinogenic, hallucinosis

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    {
      "word": "hallucination"
    },
    {
      "word": "hallucinative"
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      "word": "hallucinatory"
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      "name": "uder"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin hallūcinātus, alternative form of alūcinātus, from alūcināri (to dream).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "hallucinant"
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    {
      "word": "hallucinaut"
    },
    {
      "word": "hallucinogen"
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    {
      "word": "hallucinogenic"
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      "word": "hallucinosis"
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      "categories": [
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        "To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination."
      ],
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          "word": "imagine"
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          "word": "see things"
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        {
          "ref": "2015 May 21, Andrej Karpathy, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”, in Andrej Karpathy blog:",
          "text": "In case you were wondering, the yahoo url above doesn’t actually exist, the model just hallucinated it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 14, Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaiane, Avishek Joey Bose, “Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding”, in arXiv:2104.08455 [cs], →DOI:",
          "text": "Despite maintaining plausible general linguistic capabilities, dialogue models are still unable to fully discern facts and may instead hallucinate factually invalid information.",
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        "To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data."
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        "(artificial intelligence, of a model) To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data."
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "hallusineer"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "haljuciniram",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "халюцинирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "al·lucinar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huànxiǎng",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "幻想"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "halucini"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "haluciniĝi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "hallusinoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "nähdä harhoja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "halluciner"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "molandeba",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "მოლანდება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "halluzinieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "hallucinál"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "allucinare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "hallūcinor"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "pohewa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "alucinar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "halucina"
    },
    {
      "code": "st",
      "lang": "Sotho",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "phofa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "alucinar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "hallucinera"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "bhramiñcu",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "భ్రమించు"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "bhrānti cendu",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "భ్రాంతి చెందు"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "seem to perceive what is not really present",
      "word": "halüsinasyon görmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hallucinate"
}

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