Heteroptics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    hallucination; the vision of something that is not real. uncountable

    "But this irregularity in vision , together with such enormities , as tipping the wink , the circumspective roll , the sidepeep through a thin hood or fan , must be put in the class of Heteroptics."

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"But this irregularity in vision , together with such enormities , as tipping the wink , the circumspective roll , the sidepeep through a thin hood or fan , must be put in the class of Heteroptics."

Etymology

From hetero- + optics.

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