heteroptics
nounEtymology From hetero- + optics.
1
hallucination; the vision of something that is not real.
- But this irregularity in vision , together with such enormities , as tipping the wink , the circumspective roll , the sidepeep through a thin hood or fan , must be put in the class of Heteroptics.1711 December 27 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, December 17, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 250; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC: