MEANING
A distortion of visual perception in which shapes, lines, or sizes appear warped or altered.
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Straight lines or familiar shapes look bent, stretched, or warped.Use for a visual scene that seems structurally distorted without the objects themselves changing.
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The corridor’s straight edges seemed to ripple in a sudden metamorphopsia.
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