Apophenia

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Apophenia () is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie from the Greek verb: ἀποφαίνειν, romanized: apophaínein) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.

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