Definitions for phantasmagoria

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phantasmagoria phan·tas·ma·go·ri·a

Spelling: [fan-taz-muh-gawr-ee-uh, -gohr-]

IPA: /fænˌtæz məˈgɔr i ə, -ˈgoʊr-/

Phantasmagoria is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 2130 anagrams from letters in phantasmagoria (aaaaghimnoprst).

Definitions for phantasmagoria

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.

Origin of phantasmagoria

1795-1805; French fantasmagorie, compound based on fantasme phantasm; second element perhaps representing Greek agorá assembly, gathering; see

Examples for phantasmagoria

Are we legislating, or amusing ourselves with phantasmagoria?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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