'Pareidolia' and other fancy Greek words for common happenings
by Melissa Mohr
Jan 17, 2022
2 minutes
I have seen some weighty-sounding listicles lately: “More Paraprosdokians” and “30 Examples of Pareidolia.” These multisyllabic Greek words may look fancy and be hard to pronounce, but they refer to two things that are perfect for online sharing.
A (pronounced ) is a (pronounced ) is “the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern,” according to Merriam-Webster – seeing New Hampshire’s Old Man of the Mountain in a cliff face, for example.
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