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Meaning of "pareidolia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PAREIDOLIA

From para-4 + eidolon.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PAREIDOLIA

pareidolia  [ˌpæraɪˈdəʊlɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAREIDOLIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pareidolia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PAREIDOLIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pareidolia

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse. The word comes from the Greek words para in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eidōlon the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.

Definition of pareidolia in the English dictionary

The definition of pareidolia in the dictionary is the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAREIDOLIA


acholia
eɪˈkəʊlɪə
Aeolia
iːˈəʊlɪə
Aetolia
iːˈtəʊlɪə
Anatolia
ˌænəˈtəʊlɪə
folia
ˈfəʊlɪə
foliar
ˈfəʊlɪə
Grolier
ˈɡrəʊlɪə
hemiolia
ˌhemɪˈəʊlɪə
magnolia
mæɡˈnəʊlɪə
melancholia
ˌmɛlənˈkəʊlɪə
Mongolia
mɒŋˈɡəʊlɪə
olea
ˈəʊlɪə
pignolia
piːˈnəʊlɪə
scholia
ˈskəʊlɪə
strephosymbolia
ˌstrefəʊsɪmˈbəʊlɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAREIDOLIA

pare
parecious
pared-down
paregoric
pareira
paren.
parenchyma
parenchymal
parenchymatous
parenesis
parent
parent body
parent company
parent group
parent metal
parent teacher association
parent tree
parent-teacher meeting
parentage
parental

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAREIDOLIA

agitated melancholia
amelia
Anglia
Cecilia
dahlia
Delia
Elia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Inner Mongolia
Italia
memorabilia
Morelia
Outer Mongolia
Puglia
Sicilia
Somalia
South Australia
Thalia
Venezia Giulia
Western Australia

Synonyms and antonyms of pareidolia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pareidolia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAREIDOLIA

Find out the translation of pareidolia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pareidolia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pareidolia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pareidolia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pareidolia
570 millions of speakers

English

pareidolia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pareidolia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pareidolia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Pareidolia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pareidolia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pareidolia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pareidolia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pareidolia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pareidolia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パレイドリア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pareidolia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pareidolia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pareidolia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pareidolia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेरेडिओलिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pareidolia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pareidolia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pareidolia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Pareidolia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pareidolia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρειδωλία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Pareidolie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pareidolia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pareidolia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pareidolia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAREIDOLIA»

The term «pareidolia» is regularly used and occupies the 79.094 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAREIDOLIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pareidolia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAREIDOLIA»

Discover the use of pareidolia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pareidolia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pareidolia
Pareidolia: A type of illusion involving the misidentification of a vague indefinite stimulus as a person or an object. Examples include seeing the man in the moon, Jesus in a tortilla, or a face on Mars. So strong are our innate pattern recognition  ...
Jay O'Connell, John Terris, 2001
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Tales from Pareidolia
Stuart F Taylor. STUQRT F TQYLOR Talesfrom Pareidolia Talesfrom Pareidolia Stuart F Taylor All rights reserved;. Front Cover.
Stuart F Taylor, 2012
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Being and Perceiving
This throws new light on certain aspects of shamanism; particularly animism – in which everything in existence is said to possess consciousness and/or a soul – in that animism can be considered a heightened form of pareidolia. Taken ...
‎2011
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A Dictionary of Hallucinations
Auditory pareidolia is classified as a type of ∗pareidolia. The notion of pareidolia, at least as originally conceptualized by the Russian psychiatrist Victor Kandinsky (1849–1889), used to have an exclusive bearing on the visual modality.
Jan Dirk Blom, 2009
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Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking
Pareidolia People see all kinds of things in clouds, water spots on the ceiling, and other random patterns, for instance, a man's face in the moon's surface. These images are called pareidolia. The principle underlying the use of the famous ...
Leonard Zusne, Warren H. Jones, 1989
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The Essentials of Postgraduate Psychiatry
(iv) Pareidolia. Another common and normal phenomenon, pareidolia are the perceptions conjured up by ill-defined sense impressions such as those that occur when staring into the dying embers of an open fire. Phenomena related to false ...
Robin Murray (MD, M Phil, MRCP, MRC Psych.), Robin Murray, Peter David Hill, 1997
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Haunting Experiences
This can lead to a condition known as pareidolia, in which the brain incorrectly interprets patterns so that we think we see objects or people that aren't really there. When driving, a person might begin to swerve to avoid an object in the road, ...
Michelle A. Belanger, 2010
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The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, ...
Refreshing and witty, both believers and unbelievers will find this compendium complete and captivating. Buy this book and feed your head!
Robert Carroll, 2011
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Stalking Darkness
The condition of apophenia is similar to pareidolia, but it is more severe in nature. An example of this type of disorder would be a person who looks at a rock and sees “witches runes” in the cracks, or someone who sees demonic images in a ...
Brian Schill
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The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends
In other words, collembolans in skin scrapings might be just another example of the phenomenon of pareidolia, "a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct" ( Carroll ...
May Berenbaum, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAREIDOLIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pareidolia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Could artificial intelligence lose its mind?
The artificial neural network appeared to have come down with an acute case of pareidolia — a condition that causes sufferers to perceive ... «Moneyweb.co.za, Jul 15»
2
The Week's Most Eerily Fascinating Stories
People are, in some sense, wired to seek out human faces (hence pareidolia, seeing faces in inanimate objects like the moon, or toast). And we ... «National Geographic, Jul 15»
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Could Artificial Intelligence Lose Its Mind?: Leonid Bershidsky
The artificial neural network appeared to have come down with an acute case of pareidolia -- a condition that causes sufferers to perceive ... «IT Business Net, Jul 15»
4
Strange Wilds - Subjective Concepts
... furious Egophilia, the stop-start dynamics of Disdain and the spiritedly petulant Terrible and Pareidolia all barely grazing the two-minute mark ... «musicOMH.com, Jul 15»
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Strange Wilds: Subjective Concepts review – decent but typical …
... while others veer into the unapologetic hardcore of Sub Pop labelmates Metz and Sacramento malcontents Trash Talk (Egophillia, Pareidolia ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Viral video reportedly shows Catholic icon's lips moving in church …
The phenomenon is known as “face pareidolia”. While another theory about the lip-movements is that the video is a prank, there's some ... «Chron.com, Jul 15»
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Neurotic People See Faces in Things
This tendency to spot hidden faces in random patterns has a name—pareidolia—and it's the subject of some new research out of Japan, which ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
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NBA Iron Men 2015
Humans are relentless pattern-seekers, but the issue is murky and pareidolia-induced theories often crumble upon closer examination. «Nylon Calculus, Jul 15»
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Alien Face Sculpture In Curiosity Rover Photo Could Be Clinching …
But skeptics say the sighting is yet another example of what psychologists term pareidolia, the tendency of the pattern recognition functions of ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
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What it means if you see faces in things
Do you see a face in this building? If so, you are experiencing a phenomenon known as pareidolia - the name given to the fairly common ability ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Pareidolia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pareidolia>. Apr 2024 ».
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