Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.
Examples
“The term apophenia was coined by Klaus Conrad in 1958.”
“LH, I don't say that the term apophenia has no place or no role to play.”
“Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report from apophenia is important information for educators, parents, and policy makers.”
Web Teacher › Useful Links: Internet safety, jQuery, Obama and Tech
“This is sometimes called apophenia and has been linked to electronic voice phenomena, where people claim to hear the voice of spirits amid the static of tape recordings.”
“Some scholars, particularly New Media and literary critics like Danah Boyd (whose long running weblog is called apophenia) have argued that a weblog is, in fact, a technology or a medium of communications that is so highly malleable that it is distinctly capable of supporting a wide range of communicative strategies (Reconstruction 6 [2006]).”
Blogging Archaeology and the Archaeology of Blogging - The Weblog. History and Taxonomy
“In its most general definition, this experience of seeing patterns in random data is called apophenia - a term that also covers the phenomenon of ‘false positives†™ in statistics, for example.”
“It's called apophenia, when the human mind interprets random stimuli as having some kind of pattern, such as appearing as a face etc.”
“In its most general definition, this experience of seeing patterns in random data is called apophenia - a term that also covers the phenomenon of 'false positives' in statistics, for example.”
“Scientific American patternicity - aka apophenia, pareidolia, or perceiving meaningful information in random noise. fake smiles when we're feeling rejected, reports the BPS Research Digest”
“Pareidolia is a specific kind of apophenia where faces or other patterns emerge from random shapes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apophenia’.
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 19 more...
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Portmanteau-ism
portmanteau, interstice, apoplexy, aposiopesis, folderol, festoon, canard, augur, sang-froid, apophenia, antisyzygy, agent provocateur and 4 more...
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apophenia34's list
apophenia, svelte, coriolis effect, misoneism, pulchritude, sycophant, insouciance, chagrined, neuropsychiatorium, caldé, for, silk
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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favorite words
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 129 more...
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megsarah's Words
lygophilia, rhapsodomancy, lynch, ebb, throb, hollow, somniloquy, incense, caress, sashay, ephemeral, quiver and 97 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 209 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1154 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 236 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ready, fire, aim!, 正名, wabi-sabi, antediluvian, philter, draught, experience, verbiage, verbose, elan, coup de main, nonce word and 547 more...
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littlemasumi's list
thaumatolatry, liminality, sophistry, myopia, prosopopeia, palimpsest, imbroglio, ephemeral, sentient, prescient, vicissitude, zeitgeist and 103 more...
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Lessons of Wordie / Wordnik
Words and concepts I learned on Wordie, or happened upon as I roamed through dictionaries and websites seeking ammunition.
usquebaugh, baugh, plunderbunny, plinthiform, hendiatris, buckjumper, peripetia, trenchmore, antifogmatic, felon, whitlow, paronychia and 152 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (A)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
abalone, abbey, abundant, aconite, acorn, addled, adept, aeon, aerie, aglow, ague, aire and 99 more...
treeseed Apophenia is the perception of patterns, or connections, where in fact none exist. Most psychologists agree that this condition exists in everyone, to some degree; it is a bias of the human mind.
_Lostpedia.com Feb 22, 2008
tsuomela Here's the thing about film festivals. When you're averaging eight flicks a day (features and shorts), as the cinetrix did on Friday and Saturday of this year's Full Frame festival, the temptation to indulge in a bit of apophenia is too strong to resist. @ http://pullquote.typepad.com/pullquote/2007/05/ffdff_helicopte.html May 12, 2007