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What do you call it when one thing looks like another thing? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by spitz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, looking at a forest from overhead can reveal a pattern of a human face. Maybe that's not the best example but I can't think of any right now. There's a term for it, and there was a subreddit dedicated to such things.

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[–] CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 1 year ago

Pareidolia is what you are looking for, friend.

[–] muttley@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

!pareidolia@sh.itjust.works

[–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yusssss! Subscribed

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Pareidolia

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Deja View…..I’m kidding. I’m kidding.

Pareidolia is the right answer.

[–] nx2@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We really need those niece communities here. This post here technically breaks rule 1. of !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nephews, nieces, aunts and uncles too

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget niblings and piblings!

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 1 year ago

there was silhouwhat on reddit, I think. A portmanteau of "silhouette" and the exclamation, "what"

[–] anolemmi@lemmi.social 3 points 1 year ago

Seeing faces in different objects is called pareidolia, not sure if that’s what you’re looking for?

[–] spitz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yep that's exactly it. Cheers.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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