heteroptics

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noun

hallucination; the vision of something that is not real.

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Meanings

nounheteroptics (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehallucination; the vision of something that is not real.

    But this irregularity in vision , together with such enormities , as tipping the wink , the circumspective roll , the sidepeep through a thin hood or fan , must be put in the class of Heteroptics.

    1711 December 27 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, December 17, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 250; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC

Origin

From hetero- + optics.

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