Lilliputian vision
English
Etymology
Compound of Lilliputian + vision; ultimately from Lilliput, a fictional land of tiny people in Gulliver's Travels.
Noun
Lilliputian vision (uncountable)
- A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia.
- 1985, Oliver Sacks, Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 84:
- 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
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