Meanings
- uncountableA hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.
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 world
1985, Oliver Sacks, Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 84
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Compound of Brobdingnagian + vision; ultimately from Brobdingnag, a fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.
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