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Definition of phantasmagory - 2 dictionary results

phan⋅tas⋅ma⋅go⋅ry

  [fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee]
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–noun, plural -ries.
phantasmagoria.
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phan·tas·ma·go·ri·a   (fān-tāz'mə-gôr'ē-ə, -gōr'-)   
n.   pl. phan·tas·ma·go·ri·as also phan·tas·ma·go·ries

    1. A fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever.

    2. A constantly changing scene composed of numerous elements.

  2. Fantastic imagery as represented in art.


[Alteration of obsolete French phantasmagorie, art of creating supernatural illusions : perhaps fantasme, illusion (from Old French; see phantasm) + allégorie, allegory, allegorical visual representation (from Old French, allegory, from Latin allēgoria; see allegory).]
phan·tas'ma·gor'ic (-gôr'ĭk, -gŏr'-) adj., phan·tas'ma·gor'i·cal·ly adv.
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