Phantasmagoria
noun
A scene that constantly changes in a confusing or strange way.
The colorful local market was a phantasmagoria of sights, sounds, and smells.
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Formal
Literary
noun
A series of imagined or real images like those seen in a dream.
His fever caused him to experience a phantasmagoria of frightening hallucinations.
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Formal
Literary
noun
A constantly changing series of scenes or events that are slightly strange or worrying.
His artwork is a phantasmagoria of abstract and surreal shapes.
Often appears as...
- phantasmagoria of color
- phantasmagoria of sound
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Formal
Fine arts
noun
A scene that constantly changes in a confusing or strange way.
The colorful local market was a phantasmagoria of sights, sounds, and smells.
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
noun
A series of imagined or real images like those seen in a dream.
His fever caused him to experience a phantasmagoria of frightening hallucinations.
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
noun
A constantly changing series of scenes or events that are slightly strange or worrying.
His artwork is a phantasmagoria of abstract and surreal shapes.
Often appears as...
- phantasmagoria of color
- phantasmagoria of sound
Usage tips
Formal
Fine arts
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Overload
Phantasmagoria implies an overwhelming variety of sensory experiences coming together.
The festival was a phantasmagoria, with music, dancing, and costumes blending into a vibrant whirl.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Imagery
Use phantasmagoria to express rich, visual scenes to enhance descriptive writing.
A phantasmagoria of fireworks lit up the night sky, each burst more elaborate than the last.
Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Overload
Phantasmagoria implies an overwhelming variety of sensory experiences coming together.
The festival was a phantasmagoria, with music, dancing, and costumes blending into a vibrant whirl.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Imagery
Use phantasmagoria to express rich, visual scenes to enhance descriptive writing.
A phantasmagoria of fireworks lit up the night sky, each burst more elaborate than the last.
Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Overload
Phantasmagoria implies an overwhelming variety of sensory experiences coming together.
The festival was a phantasmagoria, with music, dancing, and costumes blending into a vibrant whirl.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Imagery
Use phantasmagoria to express rich, visual scenes to enhance descriptive writing.
A phantasmagoria of fireworks lit up the night sky, each burst more elaborate than the last.
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Sheena Iyengar: The art...
select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the idea with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria,
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The art of choosing -...
multiple choices we live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images by the idea with which we learn to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual
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Sheena Iyengar: The art...
select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the idea with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria,
Video examples
The art of choosing -...
multiple choices we live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images by the idea with which we learn to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Harry Dean Stanton
American Actor
I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.
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Joan Didion
American Author
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Quote examples
Harry Dean Stanton
American Actor
I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.
Quote examples
Joan Didion
American Author
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Example 1 of 2
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