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auditory hallucination
The perception of sounds, especially voices, when no external auditory stimulus is present. A symptom associated with certain psychiatric conditions, extreme fatigue, or stress.
A compound of 幻 (illusion, phantom) and 聴 (hearing, listening). The word is used both in clinical medical contexts and in casual speech to describe hearing sounds that are not there.
In everyday conversation, people sometimes use 幻聴 loosely to express that they thought they heard something that was not actually said, without implying a medical condition.
Common collocations
- 幻聴が聞こえる: to hear auditory hallucinations
- 幻聴の症状: symptoms of auditory hallucinations
- 幻聴に悩まされる: to be troubled by auditory hallucinations
- 幻聴が消える: for the hallucinations to stop