Paroptic

Quick meaning: Paroptic is an adjective meaning Of, or relating to the alleged capability to perceive colors, differences in brightness, and/or formed images by means other than eyesight, especially through the skin or upon touching with the fingertips.

Meaning

Of, or relating to the alleged capability to perceive colors, differences in brightness, and/or formed images by means other than eyesight, especially through the skin or upon touching with the fingertips.

Example Sentences

The paroptic vision—that of seeing with the fingertips—could be a bridge between physical and psychic vision.

These five series of experiments confirmed him in his opinion that there is a "paroptic" perception which is sui generis, and he decided to examine this in greater detail rather than establish further instances of its existence.

Experiments with paroptic vision were carried out in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the scientists Cesare Lombroso and Jules Romains, with startling results. (See Colin Wilson's Poltergeist [1981] and Afterlife [1987] for an account of Lombroso's work.)

In the Farbenlehre Goethe had classified color phenomena into the subjective physiological colors, the objective chemical colors, and the subjective-objective phsyical colors. he identified entoptics as subjective-objective, to be added to his earlier discussion of dioptric, catoptric, paroptic, and epoptic.

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