heteroptics

het·er·op·tics

[het-uh-rop-tiks]
noun ( used with a singular verb )
incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.

Origin:
1705–15; heter- + optics

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Heteroptics is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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