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auditory hallucinations

noun

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Hearing sounds or voices that have no external source, often experienced as coming from outside the head.

She reported third-person auditory hallucinations discussing her as if she were not present.

Similar: hearing voices

Topic: Advanced English in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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