oneiric
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- adjective
- /oʊˈnɪrɪk/
- Literature
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onírico
- If these conventions have traditionally been associated with the transformation of the canvas into a window onto a world made "real" through the sleight of hand of illusionism, here they are pressed into the service of a world that is simultaneously "real" and oneiric.
Examples
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The idea was not to be entirely naturalistic, but in each scene to determine the time of day and reflect light accordingly through "windows" in the flooring; and to reflect oneiric moments as required.
Academic text (2017) -
For it is style rather than language that we would take as a term of comparison with the properties that Freud has disclosed as indicative of oneiric "language." One is struck by the analogies that suggest themselves here.
Academic text (1990) -
Neither is oneiric in the sense of symbolism or surrealism.
Academic text (1994) -
Marriage was oneiric.
Fiction book (1997) -
Samuel can't quite ascertain whether he, or at least some oneiric version of himself, was involved.
Blog text (3) -
I can say that this book has the sort of oneiric quality that can leave one disoriented, grasping for a familiar matrix.
Blog text (15) -
And one way of expanding the dictionary, and it seems to me that this is really part of what Jean and John Comaroff are doing, is to allow for as many forms of criticism as possible: prophetic, apocalyptic, pictorial, musical, poetic, oneiric.
Academic text (2010) -
She manifests herself through different forms: as is the case in "La Muse malade," by appearing as a "green succubus" or as a "rosy imp" in the oneiric world of dreams and nightmares.
Blog text (8) -
The research group from Mills College that traveled to the Frinthian plane to record and study oneiric brainwave synchrony agreed that (like the synchronization of menstrual and other cycles within groups on our plane) communal dreaming may serve to strengthen the social bond.
Fiction book (2002) -
The artist's latest painting captures the oneiric beauty of a dreamscape.
Synonyms
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Feels soft, gentle and romantic, like a dream
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Having a calm, unreal quality as if you are half asleep
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8.8
That makes someone see or hear things that are not real
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Looks like a strange dream with changing images
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Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Appearing lost in thought with a soft, unfocused look
A mood that feels like a soft, half-remembered dream
How Dreamlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
oneiric = oneir (opaque) = oneir + ic
Although the suffix '-ic' is productive, the root is a Greek combining form unfamiliar to most learners, so 'oneiric' is not transparently interpretable as 'dream-related' by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Oneiric comes from the Greek word oneiros, which means 'dream', so it describes things that feel like a dream or are 'dreamlike'.