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fantasmagoria

fantasmagoria is the alternative form of phantasmagoria.

Meaning of phantasmagoria

Noun

phantasmagoria (plural phantasmagorias)

  1. (historical) A popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theater entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed.
    Synonyms:
    magic lantern
  2. A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and color.
  3. A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
    • this mental phantasmagoria1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

Forms of fantasmagoria

pluralfantasmagorias

Questions about fantasmagoria

What is fantasmagoria the alternative form of?
Fantasmagoria is the alternative form of phantasmagoria.

Words near fantasmagoria in the dictionary

  1. fantasizers
  2. fantasizes
  3. fantasizing
  4. fantasizings
  5. fantasm
  6. fantasmagoria
  7. fantasmagorias
  8. fantasmagorical
  9. fantasmal
  10. fantasmascope
  11. fantasmatic

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