phantasmagoric

English

Etymology

From phantasmagoria +‎ -ic.[1]

Adjective

phantasmagoric (comparative more phantasmagoric, superlative most phantasmagoric)

  1. Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
    • 2000, Postmodern Studies, volume 28, page 127:
      As early as 1965, however, Tom Wolfe sensed the importance of "electrographic architecture," the phantasmagoric billboards along 79.
  2. Characterized by or pertaining to a dreamlike blurring of real and imaginary elements.

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  1. ^ “phantasmagoric, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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