幻聴(げんちょう)

げんちょう
noun
auditory hallucination
1. 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.
幻聴(げんちょう)が聞(き)こえる。
I hear auditory hallucinations.
疲(つか)れすぎて幻聴(げんちょう)かと思(おも)った。
I was so tired I thought I was hearing things.
医師(いし)は患者(かんじゃ)の幻聴(げんちょう)の症状(しょうじょう)について詳(くわ)しく聞(き)き取(と)りを行(おこな)った。
The doctor conducted a detailed interview about the patient's auditory hallucination symptoms.

A compound of 幻(げん) (illusion, phantom) and 聴(ちょう) (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(げんちょう) loosely to express that they thought they heard something that was not actually said, without implying a medical condition.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 幻聴(げんちょう)が聞(き)こえる: to hear auditory hallucinations
  • 幻聴(げんちょう)の症状(しょうじょう): symptoms of auditory hallucinations
  • 幻聴(げんちょう)に悩(なや)まされる: to be troubled by auditory hallucinations
  • 幻聴(げんちょう)が消(き)える: for the hallucinations to stop

RELATED TERMS:

  • 幻覚(げんかく): hallucination (general, including visual)
  • 幻視(げんし): visual hallucination
  • 妄想(もうそう): delusion
  • 耳鳴(みみな)り: tinnitus (ringing in the ears, a different phenomenon)
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