[1855–60; ‹ Gk óneir(os) dream + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barrage, boilerplate, keyword, kickoff, pipeline-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'oneiric' in a sentence
oneiric
The special effects are eerily primitive, adding to the ghostly, oneiric atmosphere when he gets there.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
This gently warped, oneiric world is filled with an often vigorous physicality that can border on the acrobatic.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The result is a risky high-wire act: loose, oneiric constituent parts patterned into a tight, cerebral whole.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
He has continued trying to change, shifting from dreamlike visions to clear landscapes, from oneiric symbols to poems about friends.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
But this totality still has strong oneiric qualities - dogmatism leads only to the hallucinatory domain.