phantasmagoric

phan·tas·ma·go·ri·a (f

n-t

-gôr

, -g

-) also phan·tas·ma·go·ry (f

n-t

-gôr

, -g

)

n. pl. phan·tas·ma·go·ri·as also phan·tas·ma·go·ries

a. A fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever.

b. A constantly changing scene composed of numerous elements.

2. Fantastic imagery as represented in art.

[Alteration of obsolete French phantasmagorie, art of creating supernatural illusions : perhaps fantasme, illusion (from Old French; see phantasm) + allégorie, allegory, allegorical visual representation (from Old French, allegory, from Latin allgoria; see allegory).]

phan·tasma·goric (-gôr

k, -g

-) adj.

phan·tasma·gori·cal·ly adv.

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Adj.

phantasmagoric - characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"

phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic

unrealistic - not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"

Translations

phantasmagoric [ˌfæntæzməˈgɒrɪk] ADJ → fantasmagórico

phantasmagoric(al)

adj → phantasmagorisch

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Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

They had a dim, phantasmagoric view of the stricken country: a watery plain, with here and there great patches of fields, submerged to the hedges, and houses standing out amidst the waste of waters like toy dwellings.

The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

While the objects around me--while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to which, or to such as which, I had been accustomed from my infancy--while I hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this--I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up.

The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

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