Rorschach test
noun
variants
or less commonly Rorschach
or Rorschach inkblot test
: a projective psychological test that uses a subject's interpretation of 10 standard black or colored inkblot designs to assess personality traits and emotional tendencies
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The abstract designs are a bit of a Rorschach test, evoking topographical lines on a map, the inside of a seashell, or whatever shape your brain creates.
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Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 23 Jan. 2025
And his finest work, the 1990 television soap opera Twin Peaks, could also be considered a sensitive, comedic Rorschach test, given its all-American grotesqueries — the definition of his artistic expression.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
Their relationship is a maddening Rorschach test, a prism, a curious shape-shifting thing.
—Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
Votto was often a Rorschach test for baseball fans.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 23 Jan. 2025
And his finest work, the 1990 television soap opera Twin Peaks, could also be considered a sensitive, comedic Rorschach test, given its all-American grotesqueries — the definition of his artistic expression.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
Their relationship is a maddening Rorschach test, a prism, a curious shape-shifting thing.
—Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
Votto was often a Rorschach test for baseball fans.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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