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heautoscopy

heautoscopy noun: a hallucination in which one sees one's own body from a distance.

Noun

heautoscopy (uncountable)

  1. A hallucination in which one sees one's own body from a distance.
    • Heautoscopy may occur as a symptom in schizophrenia and epilepsy.

Origin of heautoscopy

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑαυτοῦ (heautoû, “itself”) + -scopy.

Words formed from heautoscopy

Questions about heautoscopy

What does heautoscopy mean?
Heautoscopy means a hallucination in which one sees one's own body from a distance.
What part of speech is heautoscopy?
Heautoscopy is a noun.

Words near heautoscopy in the dictionary

  1. heaumer
  2. heaumers
  3. heaumes
  4. heautomorphism
  5. heautoscopic
  6. heautoscopy
  7. heaux
  8. heauy
  9. heav'n
  10. heav'nly
  11. heav'ns

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