oneiric

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From oneir- + -ic.

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oneiric (comparative more oneiric, superlative most oneiric)

  1. Of or pertaining to dreams.
    • 2007, Khaled Besbes, The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre, ISBN 978-1-58112-955-7, page 238:
      Dreams contain oneiric images and oneiric symbols. Both of them are, in fact, 'distorted' manifestations of a latent content which resides in the dreamer's unconscious.
  2. Resembling a dream; dreamlike.
    • 2007, Richard John Neupert, A History of the French New Wave Cinema, ISBN 0-229-21704-31, page 109:
      Rather, novelist Louise de Vilmorin, whose popular novel Madame de had been recently filmed by Max Ophuls, joined Malle in reworking Denon's novella and updating it into a combination of a modern comedy of manners and a daring, even oneiric love story that played with and defied many conventions of the romance genre.

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