单词 | zooscopy |
释义 | > as lemmaszooscopy zooscopy n. Brit. /zuːˈɒskəpi/ , /zəʊˈɒskəpi/ , U.S. /zoʊˈɑskəpi/ , /zuˈɑskəpi/ [compare German Zooskopie (1891 or earlier in this sense)] Psychiatry a hallucination in which animals are visualized; a condition characterized by such hallucinations; cf. zooscopic adj.ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Zoöscopy, a kind of hallucination in which imaginary animal forms are perceived. 1933 H. Devine Recent Adv. Psychiatry (ed. 2) vi. 86 He was a chronic drinker, but had hitherto only exhibited the minor mental symptoms of alcoholism—nightmares, nocturnal zooscopy and neurasthenia. 2013 P. Hoare Sea Inside ii. 89 Rational thought might ascribe these scenes—for which there is a term, zooscopy, a form of mental delusion in which the sufferer sees imaginary animals—to isolation and malnutrition. < as lemmas |
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