phantasmagoria
Noun
- a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)
- Less specific
- representation
- mental representation
- internal representation
- Related
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- surreal
- surrealistic
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- surreal
- surrealistic
- Less specific
- a sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream what happened next was a phantasmagoria of horror and mystery
Origin
early 19th century (originally the name of a London exhibition (1802) of optical illusions produced chiefly by magic lantern): probably from French fantasmagorie , from fantasme phantasm + a fanciful suffix