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PHANTASMAGORIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phantasmagoria mean?
• PHANTASMAGORIA (noun)
The noun PHANTASMAGORIA has 1 sense:
1. a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)
Familiarity information: PHANTASMAGORIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phantasmagoria" is a kind of...):
internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)
Derivation:
phantasmagoric; phantasmagorical (characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions)
Context examples
The phantasmagoria of his brain vanished at sight of her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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