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单词 Brobdingnagian vision
释义

Brobdingnagian vision

English

Etymology

Compound of Brobdingnagian + vision; ultimately from Brobdingnag, a fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.

Noun

Brobdingnagian vision (uncountable)

  1. A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.
    • 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

Antonyms

  • Lilliputian vision
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