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phantasmagoria

[ fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee-uh, -gohr- ]

noun

  1. a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.
  2. a changing scene made up of many elements.
  3. an optical illusion produced by a magic lantern or the like in which figures increase or diminish in size, pass into each other, dissolve, etc.


phantasmagoria

/ ˌfæntæzməˈɡɒrɪk; ˌfæntæzməˈɡɔːrɪə; fænˈtæzməɡərɪ /

noun

  1. psychol a shifting medley of real or imagined figures, as in a dream
  2. films a sequence of pictures made to vary in size rapidly while remaining in focus
  3. rare.
    a shifting scene composed of different elements
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • phantasmagoric, adjective
  • ˌphantasmaˈgorically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • phan·tasma·gori·al phan·tas·ma·gor·ic [fan-taz-m, uh, -, gawr, -ik, -, gor, -], phan·tasma·gori·an adjective
  • phan·tasma·gorist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of phantasmagoria1

1795–1805; < French fantasmagorie, compound based on fantasme phantasm; second element perhaps representing Greek agorá assembly, gathering; -ia
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Word History and Origins

Origin of phantasmagoria1

C19: probably from French fantasmagorie production of phantasms, from phantasm + -agorie, perhaps from Greek ageirein to gather together
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Example Sentences

Not only does Marlantes nail down the sensory phantasmagoria and fear of combat, but also the elation.

Swiftly, now, reality was asserting itself and banishing the phantasmagoria conjured up by chandu.

Savage philosophy mingles them together in one phantasmagoria of grotesquery and horror.

It is the hour when Byron's brain becomes thronged with a glowing phantasmagoria of ideas that cry aloud for visible expression.

The old scenes passed through her mind like the changing picture in a phantasmagoria.

The phantasmagoria of moving forms and faces went past and past, as he thought, altogether insignificant, meaning nothing.

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