phantasmagoria

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From Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phantasma, ghost) + αγορευειν (agoreuein, to speak publicly)

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phantasmagoria (plural phantasmagorias)

  1. A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
  2. 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.

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