phantasmagoria
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- noun
- /ˌfæn.tæz.məˈɡɔːr.i.ə/
- Literature
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fantasmagoría
- As I walked through the art exhibit, I encountered a phantasmagoria of styles that challenged my perception of reality.
Examples
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And so there's a way in which bureaucracy engenders this phantasmagoria of science fiction speculation.
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The carnival was a phantasmagoria of vibrant lights and swirling colors that dazzled all who attended.
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What is this reference to medieval phantasmagoria doing in a realistic novel?
Academic text (2003) -
I wonder if we should look to phantasmagoria above fundamentalities.
Fiction book (1991) -
Anne McClintock explains: "Nations are not simply phantasmagoria of the mind but are historical practices through which social difference is both invented and performed."
Academic text (2004) -
The puppet stage seems especially good at representing the city as a phantasmagoria, a dream space, at once utopian and demonic.
Academic text (1997) -
But the images of those chopped-off trunks, still upright, became more and more like some hallucinatory phantasmagoria than like the concrete, familiar reality of the days before.
Fiction book (1992) -
Inconsolably, in her old familiar solitude, she walks through neighborhoods of illusion and phantasmagoria, witnessing loss, tragedy, and heartbreak—each following a great and joyous victory.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her dreams often resembled a phantasmagoria, filled with surreal images and whimsical scenarios that left her in awe.
Antonyms
How Illusory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Phantasmagoria comes from the Greek word phantasma 'ghost' and a second part -agoria that suggests a 'gathering' or 'show'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a 'show of ghosts', an always-changing, dreamlike stream of strange images, which is why we use it for a scene of shifting illusions.