Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
pareidolia .
Etymologies
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pareidolia + -ic
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Examples
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For the ones in the middle-structures, formations, smudges, and shapes that give us a pareidolic reaction that causes us to see a face-they used photographs that machine vision systems had falsely tagged as faces.
Ars Technica WIRED UK 2012
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For the ones in the middle - structures, formations, smudges and shapes that give us a pareidolic reaction that causes us to see a face - they used photographs that machine vision systems had falsely tagged as faces.
Wired Top Stories Wired UK 2012
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I now return you to your regularly scheduled pareidolic ruminations.
Bad Astronomy 2008
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