Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hear voices

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

Syllables: hear voic-es
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

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

verb

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Religion.

Inflected Forms

hears voices (present, singular) hearing voices (participle, present) heard voices (participle, past) heard voices (past)

Phrases

hear things

Frequently Paired Words

hear things things

Questions

What does hear voices mean?: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice.

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