phantasmagoristn.
/ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪst/, /fanˌtazməˈɡɒrɪst/, U.S. /fænˌtæzməˈɡɔrəst/ rare.
A person who produces or exhibits a phantasmagoria. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > optical distortions > demonstrations of > one who
phantasmagorist1816
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosopher > [noun]
philosopher?1316
philosophe1340
divider1588
philosophist1589
philosophizer1676
thinker1830
philosopherling1833
phantasmagorist1862
philosopher's philosopher1879
maître à penser1959
1816 Monthly Mag. 42 298 Whether..it can possibly be worth while..for our chemists, or rather for our phantasmagorists to repeat any of the old palingenesian experiments?
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xxxi. 234 Those arch phantasmagorists, the philosophers, who would leave nothing in the universe but their own delusions.
1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. vi. 4/5 The latest film by West German sex-and-society phantasmagorist Robert Van Ackeren..is weird indeed.
2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 5 Feb. j6 Seen through a glass of wine,..she is transformed into a ghoul right out of the Belgian phantasmagorist James Ensor's worst imagination.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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