Word.ws English Dictionary

entoptic

entoptic adjective: located within the eyeball.

Adjective

entoptic (not comparable)

  1. Located within the eyeball.
  2. Of or relating to visual phenomena caused by objects within the eye, or the objects themselves.
    • When small opaque particles exist in the transparent media, they may cast their shadow on the retina so as to give rise to images which are projected outwards by the mind into space, and thus appear to exist outside of the body. Such phenomena are termed entoptic.1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Vision
    • Entoptic [corrected] phenomena in pregeniculate and postgeniculate hemianopsia with splitting of macula by perimetry [the original article ((15 March 1990), volume 109, number 3, page 375) misspelled the word as entopic]1990 November 15, R. S. Manor, “Erratum: Entoptic [corrected] Phenomena in Pregeniculate and Postgeniculate Hemianopsia with Splitting of Macula by Perimetry”, in American Journal of Ophthalmology...

entoptic meaning in Tamil

entoptic in Tamil

கண்ணிலைக்காட்சியுணர்வு

Origin of entoptic

From ent- + optic.

Questions about entoptic

What does entoptic mean?
Entoptic means located within the eyeball.
What is entoptic in Tamil?
Entoptic in Tamil is கண்ணிலைக்காட்சியுணர்வு. See Entoptic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is entoptic?
Entoptic is an adjective.

Words near entoptic in the dictionary

  1. entoplastron
  2. entoproct
  3. entoprocts
  4. entopterygoid
  5. entopterygoids
  6. entoptic
  7. entoptical
  8. entoptically
  9. entoptics
  10. entoptoscope
  11. entoptoscopes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: entoptic (page history and authors); entoptic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “entoptic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/entoptic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.