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apophany

apophany is the alternative form of apophenia.

Meaning of apophenia

Noun

apophenia (countable and uncountable, plural apophenias)

  1. The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.
    • Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. And had never, as far as Cayce knows, said another word about it.2004, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, Penguin UK, →ISBN

Questions about apophany

What is apophany the alternative form of?
Apophany is the alternative form of apophenia.

Words near apophany in the dictionary

  1. apopemptics
  2. apopetalous
  3. apophallation
  4. apophanous
  5. apophantic
  6. apophany
  7. apophases
  8. apophasis
  9. apophatic
  10. apophatically
  11. apophatism

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