phantasmagoria
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From Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phantasma, “ghost”) + αγορευειν (agoreuein, “to speak publicly”)
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phantasmagoria (plural phantasmagorias)
- A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
- A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
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Terms derived from phantasmagoria
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a series of events
a dreamlike state
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