stopped clock illusion
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An instance of chronostasis in which the second hand of an analog clock appears to stay still for longer than normal when looking at it for the first time.
Inflected Forms
the stopped clock illusion (canonical)
stopped-clock illusion (alternative)