noun Ophthalmology.
- a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
noun
- a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than they appear to a person with normal vision
n.
- A visual disorder in which objects appear much smaller than they actually are, possibly caused by a retinal disorder but often associated with hallucination or an unconscious attempt to shrink the world to a less threatening size.