phantasmagoria

nounhallucination

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Word Origin & History

1802, name of a "magic lantern" exhibition brought to London in 1802 by Parisian showman Paul de Philipstal, the name an alteration of French phantasmagorie, said to have been coined 1801 by French dramatist Louis-Sébastien Mercier as though to mean "crowd of phantoms," from Greek phantasma "image, phantom, apparition" (see phantasm) + second element probably a French form of Greek agora "assembly" (but this may have been chosen more for the dramatic sound than any literal sense). Transferred meaning "shifting scene of many elements" is attested from 1822. Related: Phantasmagorical.

Example Sentences forphantasmagoria

Was the bear merely a part of the phantasmagoria of an enchanted region?

The rest of that luncheon-party was a phantasmagoria of faces and voices to poor Nelly.

They rose and eddied through his mind like the phantasmagoria of a dream.

He suspected Gordon, and as for the phantasmagoria of last night, he could make nothing of it.

It is one of those memories that enter into the phantasmagoria of the night.

Are we legislating, or amusing ourselves with phantasmagoria?

Perhaps that other phantasmagoria, the Internet, is the solution.

If nature had been merely a phantasmagoria there would have been no science of nature.

In short, dreaming is synonymous to us with illusion, phantasmagoria, and falsehood.

It all seemed like a dream, a phantasmagoria, and yet it was very wonderful.

phantasmagoria

light show

optical illusion

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