Dyw'r term ddim wedi'i restru yn Termau Golwg a Chlyw (www.wcbnet.freeserve.co.uk/English/Downloads/vocab.pdf) ond dyma ddiffiniad oddi ar wefan un o'r cymdeithasau hunan-gymorth i bobl sydd ag amhariad ar eu golwg: Eccentric viewing is a technique used by people with central vision loss... it is a method by which the person looks slightly away from the subject in order to view it peripherally with another area of the visual field.