Home › Words › A › antisaccadeantisaccadeantisaccade means an (often voluntary) movement of the eye away from a point of stimulus.EtymologyFrom anti- + saccade.nounAn (often voluntary) movement of the eye away from a point of stimulusDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.antisaccadic 71% match — Relating to antisaccades vs antisaccade →prosaccade 66% match — A saccade towards a target vs antisaccade →saccade 62% match — A rapid movement of the eye (either voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another. (Often described as a jerky movement, but this word denotes all such quick eye movements, which happen continually, not just exaggerated or weird ones, and not nystagmus.) vs antisaccade →prosaccadic 57% match — Relating to a prosaccade vs antisaccade →downshoot 56% match — An involuntary downward movement of the eye vs antisaccade →presaccadic 56% match — Prior to a saccadic phase vs antisaccade →excyclovergence 55% match — rotation of the eyes away from each other vs antisaccade →optokinesis 55% match — The movement of the eye in response to an external stimulus vs antisaccade →