occhiolism

noun /ˈəʊkjəʊˌlɪzəm/

1. The awareness of the small scope of one's own perspective and the way it limits one's ability to fully understand the world.

   rare, uncountable

   I've never been consumed by so much occhiolism, I was so small so insignificant.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry occhiolism (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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