oneiric.

Of dreams or resembling their strange, shifting quality.

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Words that belong together

• oneiric imagery
• oneiric atmosphere

On the page

An oneiric sequence joined the corridor to a beach she had never seen.

The film’s oneiric imagery made time difficult to follow.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a classification; more oneiric is possible for degree of dreamlike quality. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.