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  • adjective Of or pertaining to pareidolia.

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pareidolia +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • I now return you to your regularly scheduled pareidolic ruminations.

    Bad Astronomy 2008

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