Etymology

Lilliputian vision

Today it means: A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia. Full definition →

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The story

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

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