亚洲网紅露点

Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

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

/ 藢f忙nt忙zm蓹藞伞蓲r瑟k; 藢f忙nt忙zm蓹藞伞蓴藧r瑟蓹; f忙n藞t忙zm蓹伞蓹r瑟 /

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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

Derived Forms

  • phantasmagoric, adjective
  • 藢辫丑补苍迟补蝉尘补藞驳辞谤颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
Discover More

Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫丑补苍路迟补蝉顎卪补路驳辞顎价颈路补濒 辫丑补苍路迟补蝉路尘补路驳辞谤路颈肠 [fan-taz-m, uh, -, gawr, -ik, -, gor, -], 辫丑补苍路迟补蝉顎卪补路驳辞顎价颈路补苍 adjective
  • 辫丑补苍路迟补蝉顎卪补路驳辞谤顎僫蝉迟 noun
Discover More

亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of phantasmagoria1

1795鈥1805; < French fantasmagorie, compound based on fantasme phantasm; second element perhaps representing Greek 补驳辞谤谩 assembly, gathering; -ia
Discover More

亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of phantasmagoria1

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

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

A high point for polished yet hirsute L.A. rock: The Eagles鈥 Hollywood phantasmagoria is named record of the year the same night Fleetwood Mac wins the album prize with the darkly glittering 鈥淩umours.鈥

From

In this enormous projection piece, Eliasson unfurls a phantasmagoria of shifting shapes and amorphous space across a vast fabric scrim stretched between the walls of a large, darkened museum gallery.

From

Lurking behind Foreman鈥檚 madhouse phantasmagorias is the mind of the artist interrogating its own secret chambers.

From

Instead of what you鈥檇 expect 鈥 legions of them, rising up in gory phantasmagoria 鈥 I encountered accounts of very few, chiefly demure lady ghosts, swathed in white, blue, or pink, like Disney princesses.

From

I can take video of the flashing phantasmagoria displayed in the windows, glowing like screens themselves, and send it to a filmmaker friend 鈥 who will be too preoccupied with other moving images to watch it.

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


phantasmaphantasmagoric