Today's “Word of the Day” on Dictionary.com is pareidolia [ pair-ahy-doh-lee-uh ], noun, “the illusory perception of meaningful patterns or images of familiar things in random or amorphous data, as a face seen on the moon.” As in,
“As I stared at the clouds, I experienced pareidolia and saw a bunny shape formed by their fluffy contours.”
I’ll have to add that one to my vocab list for Partly Cloudy!
Published on January 25, 2024 07:55