gustatory hallucination; taste hallucination
Medical and psychological term for perceiving a taste without an external stimulus. Used in clinical contexts.
Gustatory hallucinations can appear as a symptom of schizophrenia.
He suffered from taste hallucinations and constantly felt a metallic taste in his mouth.
Compound of 幻 (gen, 'phantom, illusion') and 味 (mi, 'taste'). The reading is the on'yomi of both characters. A modern medical coinage following the pattern of other hallucination terms like 幻覚 and 幻聴.