Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Parablepsia; visual illusion or hallucination.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects.

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  • noun medicine, dated false sight; hallucination

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek false + sight.

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Examples

  • "Professors of ophthalmology in a diagnosis of optical diseases, tell us of a symptom of infirmity which they call pseudoblepsis, or

    At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

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