Meaning & use
phantasmagoric
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Having a fantastic, dreamlike, or hallucinatory quality, as if seen in a series of shifting illusions.
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The carnival's mirrored halls created a phantasmagoric parade of distorted reflections.
Her novel describes a phantasmagoric journey through a city that keeps rearranging itself.
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Comes from 'phantasmagoria,' an 18th-century form of theater using projected ghostly images; the word suits vivid, unsettling, shifting imagery rather than plain strangeness.
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