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Lilliputian vision

Lilliputian vision noun: a hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia.

Noun

Lilliputian vision (uncountable)

  1. A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia.
    • 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 Lilliputian vision

Origin of Lilliputian vision

Compound of Lilliputian + vision; ultimately from Lilliput, a fictional land of tiny people in Gulliver's Travels.

Questions about Lilliputian vision

What does Lilliputian vision mean?
Lilliputian vision means a hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia.
What part of speech is Lilliputian vision?
Lilliputian vision is a noun.

Words near Lilliputian vision in the dictionary

  1. Lillington
  2. lillipilli
  3. lillipillis
  4. lilliput
  5. lilliputian
  6. Lilliputian vision
  7. lilliputianism
  8. lilliputianize
  9. lilliputianized
  10. lilliputianizes
  11. lilliputianizing

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