phantasmagoria
pronunciation
How to pronounce phantasmagoria in British English:
UK [ˌfæntæzməˈgɒriə]
How to pronounce phantasmagoria in American English:
US [ˌfæntæzməˈgɔriə]
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- Noun:
- a constantly changing medley or real or imagined images (as in a dream)
Word Origin
- phantasmagoria (n.)
- 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
- 1. Phantasmagoria portray the unspeakable , they rise above the written language .
- 2. But not everyone has easy access to this fruity phantasmagoria .
- 3. It is not that he is prosaic ; far from that ; but he replaces the solemn vision by the farcical phantasmagoria .
- 4. Personal life is a phantasmagoria , we should at any time adjust and then can match physically .
- 5. Bin laden is dead and along with him a whole phantasmagoria that doesnot correspond to reality .