| 单词 | phantasmagoria |
| 释义 | phantasmagoria (once / 11691 pages) n Dream-like visions can be called a phantasmagoria. If you've ever had a very high fever, you might have experienced seeing a phantasmagoria of strange images in your half-awake, feverish state. The strange, hallucinatory images you might see in a dream are a phantasmagoria. Even when you're awake, if you see odd or fantastic things — either real or imagined — they're a phantasmagoria. The word was invented by a French dramatist in 1801, who used the Greek word for "image," phantasma to make the French word phantasmagorie. The word referred to a "magic lantern" show, which in the 1800s was a popular display of projected images. WORD FAMILYphantasmagoria: phantasmagorias, phantasmagorical+/phantasmagoric: phantasmagoria, phantasmagorically USAGE EXAMPLESThe video is a seven-and-a-half-minute phantasmagoria of the Communist Party’s nightmares of Western subversion. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) As the lines between real life and game-play begin to blur, the resulting phantasmagoria is effectively freaky, with impressive gore effects. Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016) The Phantasmagoria came to London in 1801, after a decade or two of development in Germany and France. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) n a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream) Hyper internal representation, mental representation, representation a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image |
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