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Brobdingnagian vision
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English
Etymology
Compound of en Brobdingnagian vision; ultimately from en Brobdingnag, a fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.
Noun
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A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.
en 1985 Oliver Sacks Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder Berkeley University of California Press 0520051998 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
en Lilliputian vision
en Pathology Vision