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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

/ ˌfæntæzməˈɡɒrɪk; ˌfæntæzməˈɡɔːrɪə; fænˈtæzməɡərɪ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • phantasmagoric, adjective
  • ˌ󲹲Գٲˈǰ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • 󲹲·ٲm·۾· 󲹲·ٲ··ǰ· [fan-taz-m, uh, -, gawr, -ik, -, gor, -], 󲹲·ٲm·۾· adjective
  • 󲹲·ٲm·ǰi noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of phantasmagoria1

1795–1805; < French fantasmagorie, compound based on fantasme phantasm; second element perhaps representing Greek ǰá assembly, gathering; -ia
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of phantasmagoria1

C19: probably from French fantasmagorie production of phantasms, from phantasm + -agorie, perhaps from Greek ageirein to gather together
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A high point for polished yet hirsute L.A. rock: The Eagles’ Hollywood phantasmagoria is named record of the year the same night Fleetwood Mac wins the album prize with the darkly glittering “Rumours.”

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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.

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

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

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

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