Brobdingnagian vision
English
Etymology
Compound of brobdingnagian + vision; ultimately from Brobdingnag, a fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.
Noun
Brobdingnagian vision (uncountable)
- 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
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