oneiricadj.

Brit.

/ə(ʊ)ˈnʌɪrɪk/, U.S.

/oʊˈnaɪrɪk/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ὄνειρος , -ic suffix.

Etymology: < ancient Greek ὄνειρος dream (see oneiro- comb. form) + -ic suffix. Compare French onirique (1895), Italian onirico (1899).

Of, characteristic of, or relating to dreams; dreamlike.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [adjective]

somnaical1655

somnial1693

somniatory1693

somniativea1834

oneiric1859

1859 Life Eben. Henderson vi. 378 The oneiric medium of revelation.

1923 W. A. Holl tr. E. Rignano Psychol. Reasoning vi. 317 But not one of these analyses has offered the slightest proof that the oneiric phantasmagoria are an intentional pun, under which lurks an entirely different tale.

1963 T. Pynchon V. xi. 335 The green light deepened, drowning the island of Malta and the island of Fausto and Elena hopelessly deeper in its oneiric chill.

1994 Interzone Jan. 62/2 Discworld has always seemed like a dream, but Pratchett has never admitted into this pleasance anything too intimately oneiric.

2000 Independent on Sunday 21 May (Culture section) 1/1 As in a fairy-tale, its narrative is articulated by a kind of oneiric schematicism.

Derivatives

oˈneirically adv. in a manner characteristic of or relating to dreams; dreamily.

ΚΠ

1979 MLN 94 1190 (table) A Generative Lexicon for Elementary Program..C: Adverb..onanistically, oneirically, ontologically.

1982 Amer. Lit. 54 75 In line 15, the speaker ‘wakes’ into a second dream or dream within a dream, and the body, oneirically transformed into a landscape, becomes the foreign plane.

1997 Village Voice (Nexis) 11 Nov. 60 Things just degenerate into weirdness: he inexplicably passes through the well wall and emerges in the oneirically charged Room 208.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	oneiric
释义	oneiricadj. Brit. /ə(ʊ)ˈnʌɪrɪk/, U.S. /oʊˈnaɪrɪk/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ὄνειρος , -ic suffix. Etymology: < ancient Greek ὄνειρος dream (see oneiro- comb. form) + -ic suffix. Compare French onirique (1895), Italian onirico (1899). Of, characteristic of, or relating to dreams; dreamlike. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [adjective] somnaical1655 somnial1693 somniatory1693 somniativea1834 oneiric1859 1859 Life Eben. Henderson vi. 378 The oneiric medium of revelation. 1923 W. A. Holl tr. E. Rignano Psychol. Reasoning vi. 317 But not one of these analyses has offered the slightest proof that the oneiric phantasmagoria are an intentional pun, under which lurks an entirely different tale. 1963 T. Pynchon V. xi. 335 The green light deepened, drowning the island of Malta and the island of Fausto and Elena hopelessly deeper in its oneiric chill. 1994 Interzone Jan. 62/2 Discworld has always seemed like a dream, but Pratchett has never admitted into this pleasance anything too intimately oneiric. 2000 Independent on Sunday 21 May (Culture section) 1/1 As in a fairy-tale, its narrative is articulated by a kind of oneiric schematicism. Derivatives oˈneirically adv. in a manner characteristic of or relating to dreams; dreamily. ΚΠ 1979 MLN 94 1190 (table) A Generative Lexicon for Elementary Program..C: Adverb..onanistically, oneirically, ontologically. 1982 Amer. Lit. 54 75 In line 15, the speaker ‘wakes’ into a second dream or dream within a dream, and the body, oneirically transformed into a landscape, becomes the foreign plane. 1997 Village Voice (Nexis) 11 Nov. 60 Things just degenerate into weirdness: he inexplicably passes through the well wall and emerges in the oneirically charged Room 208. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1859
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