pareidolia
noun
the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features
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Nearby words
- pardy,
- pare,
- parecious,
- paregmenon,
- paregoric,
- pareira,
- pareira brava,
- paren.,
- parenchyma,
- parenchymatitis
Word Origin for pareidolia
C20: from para- 4 + eidolon
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