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phantasmagoria /ˌfantazməˈɡɔːrɪə / /ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪə/nounA sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream: what happened next was a phantasmagoria of horror and mystery...- 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.
Derivativesphantasmagoric /ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪk / adjective ...- These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
- It's an unreal, phantasmagoric place, Ford's America: an unashamedly sublime, romantic, sinister spectacle.
- Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur.
phantasmagorical /ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪk(ə)l/ adjective ...- They released a string of brilliantly weird hits with phantasmagorical Tim Pope videos and amassed huge success in America.
- The works are beguilingly small, and in clean acrylic colours on canvas, have a phantasmagorical kaleidoscopic effect, which is dizzying in its intensity.
- Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
OriginEarly 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. Rhymesauditoria, ciboria, conservatoria, crematoria, emporia, euphoria, Gloria, moratoria, Pretoria, sanatoria, scriptoria, sudatoria, victoria, Vitoria, vomitoria |