Home › Words › Z › zoopsiazoopsia/zuːˈɒpsɪə/zoopsia means visual hallucinations in which a person perceives animals that are not actually present.zoopsia is pronounced /zuːˈɒpsɪə/.EtymologyFrom zoo- + -opsia.nounVisual hallucinations in which a person perceives animals that are not actually present.e.g.“One of her most persistent hallucinations was a small brightly patterned snake moving across the floor in the periphery of her vision. Her zoöpsia was accompanied by a terror of real animals.” — 1986, Rod Jones, Julia Paradise:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.macroscopia 59% match — A form of hallucination where objects appear larger than they really are. vs zoopsia →teleopsia 58% match — A vision perception disorder in which objects appear much further away than they actually are. vs zoopsia →photopsia 58% match — The presence of perceived flashes of light. vs zoopsia →pseudoblepsis 57% match — false sight; hallucination vs zoopsia →oscillopsia 56% match — A visual disturbance in which objects in the visual field appear to oscillate. vs zoopsia →zoopraxinoscope 56% match — A mechanical toy by means of which images of animals are made to go through motions on a screen. vs zoopsia →palinopsia 56% match — A visual disturbance that causes images to persist to some extent even after their corresponding stimulus has left. vs zoopsia →entoptics 55% match — entoptic visual phenomena vs zoopsia →