Difference between Illusion and Hallucination

What is the difference between Illusion and Hallucination?

Illusion as a noun is anything that seems to be something that it is not. while Hallucination as a noun is a sensory perception of something that does not exist, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.

Illusion

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Anything that seems to be something that it is not. A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true. A magician's trick. The fact of being an illusion (in any of the above senses).

Hallucination

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sensory perception of something that does not exist, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.

We hope you now know whether to use Illusion or Hallucination in your sentence.

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