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Brobdingnagian vision

Brobdingnagian vision noun: a hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.

Noun

Brobdingnagian vision (uncountable)

  1. A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.
    • Lilliputian vision (micropsia) denotes an apparent diminution, and Brobdingnagian vision (macropsia) an apparent enlargement, in the size of objects, although the terms may also be used to denote the apparent approach or recession of the visual world1985, Oliver Sacks, Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 84

Antonyms of Brobdingnagian vision

Origin of Brobdingnagian vision

Compound of Brobdingnagian + vision; ultimately from Brobdingnag, a fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.

Questions about Brobdingnagian vision

What does Brobdingnagian vision mean?
Brobdingnagian vision means a hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.
What part of speech is Brobdingnagian vision?
Brobdingnagian vision is a noun.

Words near Brobdingnagian vision in the dictionary

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