inkblot
nounCA /ˈɪŋkˌblɑt/
Etymology From ink + blot.
1
A blot of ink.
- A note from Deller with five pencil sketches attached of the new trade figures for Brittlekin -- two bloated looking children with inkblot eyes looking greedily at an enormous bar of peanut candy.1922, Stephen Vincent Benét, Young People's Pride:
2
Figuratively A dark, shapeless object.
- In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, ...1916, Joseph Conrad, Within the Tides:
3
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach test.
- Look, I know that I have to do this, and I'll cooperate, and I'll look at your inkblots and everything, but I don't wanna talk about my life or my childhood or... anything, for that matter, actually.1998, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV, episode 3.04)
- Derived terms
- inkblot test
- Related terms
- blotter, inkpot, klecksography