hear voices

Definitions

1. 1

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice.

2. 2

   Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others

   Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.

   • 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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