apophanyn.
/əˈpɒfəni/, /əˈpɒfn̩i/, U.S. /əˈpɑfəni/ Originally and chiefly Psychiatry.
The baseless or irrational attribution of great or revelatory significance to an external event or internal experience, occurring during the development of delusional perception in schizophrenia; (also) the stage of schizophrenia in which this occurs. Cf. apophenia n. 1.
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1960 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 106 1596 There is the apophany of external space, that is external events acquire a new significance and there is apophany of internal space in which psychic events not directly related to the external world acquire a new significance.
1988 New Ideas Psychol. 6 238 The patients he describes here seem to be poised at a crucial moment between apophany and the development of explicit delusions.
2003 Austral. Financial Rev. 30 May (Review section) 11/3 (caption) Apophany refers to the moment when an ordinary experience sparks a delusion.
2013 K. W. M. Fulford et al. Oxf. Handbk. Philos. & Psychiatry 638 In the apophany the patient shifts from a general sense of change and unease into feelings of revelation or recognition that may involve various degrees of clarity or certainty.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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