If you believe they put a man in the moon...
I love learning new words, especially when they're really strong and useful. Today's new word is:
What tripe! It's far from useless, and I think it broadly applies to a lot of what we lump together as "denial." Seeing what one wants to see in something or someone is daily and rampant. Someone once told me, literally, as we hung out one afternoon, that since (at the time) I had a boyfriend, but wasn't with him and was hanging out with this person, that I didn't really love my boyfriend and had an undeniable attraction to the person I was with, which I neither had nor had made any overtures to the kind.
*shudder*
pareidolia - the psychological term for perceiving definitive patterns in vague, amorphous, or suggestive objects, a la the man in the moon or that Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich that went for $25,000 on eBay or Paris Hilton.Oddly enough, this word only shows up in two references when checked through onelook.com, and one is the "Useless Word of the Day."
What tripe! It's far from useless, and I think it broadly applies to a lot of what we lump together as "denial." Seeing what one wants to see in something or someone is daily and rampant. Someone once told me, literally, as we hung out one afternoon, that since (at the time) I had a boyfriend, but wasn't with him and was hanging out with this person, that I didn't really love my boyfriend and had an undeniable attraction to the person I was with, which I neither had nor had made any overtures to the kind.
*shudder*
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