occhiolism

== English == === Etymology === Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Italian occhiolino (“little eye”), the name given by inventor Galileo to a prototype microscope in the early 1600s, +‎ -ism. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈəʊkjəʊˌlɪzəm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊkjoʊˌlɪzəm/ === Noun === occhiolism (uncountable) (neologism, rare) The awareness of the small scope of one's own perspective and the way it limits one's ability to fully understand the world. 2018, Shannon Benna, "Systems and Practices to Produce Stereoscopic Space on Screen", in Image – Action – Space: Situating the Screen in Visual Practice (eds. Luisa Feiersinger, Kathrin Friedrich, & Moritz Queisner), page 143: Increased depth in a scene, with the subject in the distance, can make a viewer feel as though the space is vast and provide a sense of occhiolism, while increased depth with the subject and environment filling up the scene can create a sense of claustrophobia. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:occhiolism. === References ===