Definitions | pareidolia |
| noun (uncountable)
- The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the viewer; such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals or seeing shapes in clouds.
Etymology: Greek; para-—something wrong + eidolon—ghostly image, or phantom
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