1. Plural of pareidolia; instances of perceiving meaningful patterns (such as faces or familiar objects) in random or ambiguous visual stimuli.
Usage: Psychology and neuroscience term; Commonly used in everyday contexts to describe seeing faces in clouds, objects, or textures

Examples

• The children pointed out pareidolias in the clouds, seeing dragons and castles in the sky.
• Pareidolias explain why people often see faces in tree bark or rock formations.
• The artist deliberately created pareidolias in the painting to engage viewers' imaginations.
• Scientists study pareidolias to understand how the brain processes visual information.
• Many pareidolias occur when we look at the moon and see a face staring back at us.
• The phenomenon of pareidolias is why we recognize patterns even when they aren't really there.