Word of the Day: Phantasmagoria
PRONUNCIATION: [fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee-uh]
MEANING:
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.
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ETYMOLOGY: 1795–1805; < French fantasmagorie, compound based on fantasme phantasm; second element perhaps representing Greek agorá assembly, gathering.
USAGE: She saw a phantasmagoria of shadowy creatures through the fog.
SYNONYMS: aberration, apparition, fantasy, figment of the imagination, head trip, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantasmagory, phantom, vision, wraith
PRONUNCIATION: [fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee-uh]
MEANING:
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.
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ETYMOLOGY: 1795–1805; < French fantasmagorie, compound based on fantasme phantasm; second element perhaps representing Greek agorá assembly, gathering.
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SYNONYMS: aberration, apparition, fantasy, figment of the imagination, head trip, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantasmagory, phantom, vision, wraith
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