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Synonyms for phantasmagoria

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee-uh, -gohr-
Phonetic Transcription : fænˌtæz məˈgɔr i ə, -ˈgoʊr-

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Définition of phantasmagoria

Origin :
  • 1802, name of a "magic lantern" exhibition brought to London in 1802 by Parisian showman Paul de Philipstal, the name an alteration of French phantasmagorie, said to have been coined 1801 by French dramatist Louis-Sébastien Mercier as though to mean "crowd of phantoms," from Greek phantasma "image, phantom, apparition" (see phantasm) + second element probably a French form of Greek agora "assembly" (but this may have been chosen more for the dramatic sound than any literal sense). Transferred meaning "shifting scene of many elements" is attested from 1822. Related: Phantasmagorical.
  • noun hallucination
Example sentences :
  • Was the bear merely a part of the phantasmagoria of an enchanted region?
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • The rest of that luncheon-party was a phantasmagoria of faces and voices to poor Nelly.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • They rose and eddied through his mind like the phantasmagoria of a dream.
  • Extract from : « Fashion and Famine » by Ann S. Stephens
  • He suspected Gordon, and as for the phantasmagoria of last night, he could make nothing of it.
  • Extract from : « The Mercenary » by W. J. Eccott
  • It is one of those memories that enter into the phantasmagoria of the night.
  • Extract from : « The Wasted Generation » by Owen Johnson
  • Are we legislating, or amusing ourselves with phantasmagoria?
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • Perhaps that other phantasmagoria, the Internet, is the solution.
  • Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
  • If nature had been merely a phantasmagoria there would have been no science of nature.
  • Extract from : « Lux Mundi » by Various
  • In short, dreaming is synonymous to us with illusion, phantasmagoria, and falsehood.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, » by Various
  • It all seemed like a dream, a phantasmagoria, and yet it was very wonderful.
  • Extract from : « The Everlasting Arms » by Joseph Hocking

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