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pareidolias

pareidolias is the plural of pareidolia.

Meaning of pareidolia

Noun

pareidolia (countable and uncountable, plural pareidolias)

  1. The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music.
    • This last is called by Dr. Kahlbaum, changing hallucination, partial hallucination, perception of secondary images, or pareidolia.1868 July, John Sibbald, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 13, page 238

Questions about pareidolias

What is pareidolias the plural of?
Pareidolias is the plural of pareidolia.

Words near pareidolias in the dictionary

  1. pareiasaurians
  2. pareiasaurid
  3. pareiasaurids
  4. pareiasaurs
  5. pareidolia
  6. pareidolias
  7. pareidolic
  8. pareil
  9. pareils
  10. pareira
  11. pareiras

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