Definitions For Pareidolia

Noun

PAREIDOLIA. (countable and uncountable, plural PAREIDOLIAs) The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music. :

Derived terms

pareidolic

Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 空想性錯視, t, cmn, 空想性错视 (kōngxiǎngxìng cuòshì) Dutch: pareidolie, f Finnish: pareidolia French: paréidolie, f German: Pareidolie Greek: παρειδωλία, f Hungarian: pareidolia Italian: pareidolia, f Polish: pareidolia, f Portuguese: pareidolia, f Russian: парейдоли́я, f Spanish: pareidolia, f Swedish: pareidoli, c

Etymology

From "alongside, concurrent" + εἴδωλον, , image#noun, image.

Is Pareidolia a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
15

The word Pareidolia is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

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