Meaning of hear voices | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice.
2. Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.
   idiomatic

Examples

“They're hearing voices, they may have⟳ delusional thinking. They may have⟳ illogical thinking, so that when you talk⟳ to them they don't make⟳ very good sense⟳. That's the disease called schizophrenia.”

“From this time onward, [John] Mason was a changed man: he began to hear⟳ voices and experience⟳ visions of the coming millennium.”

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