Meaning & use
oneiric
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Relating to dreams or having a dreamlike quality.
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The film's oneiric imagery blurred the line between memory and fantasy.
Critics praised the novel's oneiric, almost hallucinatory prose style.
A note on using this word
A literary and academic term, rarely used in everyday conversation.
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