hear voices

English

Verb

hear voices (third-person singular simple present hears voices, present participle hearing voices, simple past and past participle heard voices)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear,‎ voice.
2. (idiomatic) Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.
   • 1991 April 19, Why Are They Here? (television production), [E. Fuller?] Torrey (actor), ABC:

     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.

   • 2018 June, Martin Greig, “Elijah in Dorset: William Freke and Enthusiasm in England and the Atlantic World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”, in Church History, →DOI, page 439:

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

See also

• hear things
• see things