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Definition of phantasmagoria in English: phantasmagorianoun ˌfantazməˈɡɔːrɪəˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪəˌfænˌtæzməˈɡɔriə A sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream. what happened next was a phantasmagoria of horror and mystery Example sentencesExamples - He creates a bad-dream atmosphere, a phantasmagoria of boredom, futile journeys, wasted lives and endless, incantatory meetings.
- Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape.
- Someone had set up a strobe light in the back, so the dancing figures were in silhouette, and their movements appeared to consist of a series of slides; like the images from a phantasmagoria.
- NBC producer David Michaels and director John Gonzalez put a phantasmagoria of images up on screen in the more than an hour-and-a-half of the telecast.
- These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
Synonyms delusion, illusion, figment of the imagination, vision, apparition, mirage, chimera, fantasy, dream, daydream
Derivatives adjective ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪkfænˌtæzməˈɡɔrɪk Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations. Example sentencesExamples - It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos.
- Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur.
- It's an unreal, phantasmagoric place, Ford's America: an unashamedly sublime, romantic, sinister spectacle.
- These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
adjective ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪk(ə)l The company is the dance equivalent of Salvador Dali, creating weird phantasmagorical worlds. Example sentencesExamples - Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
- Increasingly his memories collide with phantasmagorical Circles of Hell and apocalyptic visions.
- The works are beguilingly small, and in clean acrylic colours on canvas, have a phantasmagorical kaleidoscopic effect, which is dizzying in its intensity.
- They released a string of brilliantly weird hits with phantasmagorical Tim Pope videos and amassed huge success in America.
Synonyms dreamlike, phantasmagoric, psychedelic, kaleidoscopic, surreal, unreal, illusory, visionary, hallucinatory, fantastic, fantastical, chimerical, nightmarish, kafkaesque
Origin Early 19th century (originally the name of a London exhibition (1802) of optical illusions produced chiefly by magic lantern): probably from French fantasmagorie, from fantasme 'phantasm' + a fanciful suffix. Rhymes auditoria, ciboria, conservatoria, crematoria, emporia, euphoria, Gloria, moratoria, Pretoria, sanatoria, scriptoria, sudatoria, victoria, Vitoria, vomitoria Definition of phantasmagoria in US English: phantasmagorianounˌfanˌtazməˈɡôrēəˌfænˌtæzməˈɡɔriə A sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream. what happened next was a phantasmagoria of horror and mystery Example sentencesExamples - NBC producer David Michaels and director John Gonzalez put a phantasmagoria of images up on screen in the more than an hour-and-a-half of the telecast.
- He creates a bad-dream atmosphere, a phantasmagoria of boredom, futile journeys, wasted lives and endless, incantatory meetings.
- These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
- Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape.
- Someone had set up a strobe light in the back, so the dancing figures were in silhouette, and their movements appeared to consist of a series of slides; like the images from a phantasmagoria.
Synonyms delusion, illusion, figment of the imagination, vision, apparition, mirage, chimera, fantasy, dream, daydream
Origin Early 19th century (originally the name of a London exhibition (1802) of optical illusions produced chiefly by magic lantern): probably from French fantasmagorie, from fantasme ‘phantasm’ + a fanciful suffix. |