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幻視 (げんし) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

幻げん視し

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Meanings

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visual hallucination; vision

Medical or psychological term for seeing things that are not there. Also used in spiritual or supernatural contexts.

高こう熱ねつで幻げん視しを見みた。
I had a visual hallucination due to a high fever.

Kanji

幻phantasm, vision, dream
視inspection, regard as, see

Related words

幻げん覚かく
幻覚 is a broader term for any hallucination (visual, auditory, etc.), while 幻視 specifically refers to visual hallucinations.
幻げん聴ちょう
幻聴 is an auditory hallucination, contrasting with 幻視 which is visual.

Word family

その患かん者じゃは幻げん視しに悩なやまされている。

The patient is suffering from visual hallucinations.

自じ己こ像ぞう幻げん視し
autoscopy

Etymology

Compound of 幻 (phantom, illusion) and 視 (seeing, sight). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows a common Sino-Japanese pattern for medical/psychological terms.