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Meaning of Lilliputian vision | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia.

uncountable

Examples

“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”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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