Citations:occhiolism

Noun: "(neologism, rare) the awareness of the small scope of one's own perspective and the way it limits one's ability to fully understand the world"

 * 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 186:
 * I've never been consumed by so much occhiolism, I was so small so insignificant.
 * 2015, Tom Butler-Roberts, "Tommy Fong's Final Farewell", York Vision (The University of York), 29 September 2015, page 11:
 * Willow is a building site when I reach the top. It's barely recognisable as the place I had held a vimto-coke in one hand and an optimistic sense of occhiolism in the other merely 24 hours ago. The same people who served me several shots at the now dismantled bar are busying themselves with tearing up the carpet (there was a carpet!?) and in among them all is Tommy Fong, watching over the scene.
 * 2018, Shannon Benna, "Systems and Practices to Produce Stereoscopic Space on Screen", in Image – Action – Space: Situating the Screen in Visual Practice (eds. Luisa Feiersinger, Kathrin Friedrich, & Moritz Queisner), page 143:
 * Increased depth in a scene, with the subject in the distance, can make a viewer feel as though the space is vast and provide a sense of occhiolism, while increased depth with the subject and environment filling up the scene can create a sense of claustrophobia.
 * 2019, Cometan, Core Omnidoxy, page 166:
 * The little known emotion of occhiolism is defined as the awareness of the smallness and narrowness of one's own perspective, and in Millettarian terms, this is especially so related to humanity's current perspective of the entities known as The Cosmos in The Universe.
 * 2020, Steven Mukoro, Smells Like Death Sighing, unnumbered page:
 * Helpless, restless and troubled were the haunting looks that stared back at me and I had a bout of Occhiolism. Realising for the first time the smallness of my perspective and I realized that this Brahma, Sameer's uncle had set up a kind of elite of the damned with what seemed to be political and moral overtones.
 * 2021, Engin Yurt, "Hermetic Becomings", in From Phenomenon Labyrinths to Midnights of Zugzwangs: Or Missing Apparitions in Yūgen Recordings, page 80:
 * Defeated by an occhiolism in the end,
 * By an impossibility which hurts less and more at the same time,
 * Everything is doomed to not happen, never again.
 * This is what lies in the heart of coincidence.
 * 2022, Midnight Kale, "Riparian Forest", in Manuscripts on a Dusky Evening: Volume 1, unnumbered page:
 * By the fireside under the black evergreen night
 * I embrace your craimoisy warmth
 * Sweet solitude and gentilesse move in
 * Beneficence greatly in this subtle affinity
 * Fully understanding this occhiolism
 * Underneath this vast hemisphere