phantasmagoria.

1. A shifting succession of strange, fantastic, or dreamlike images and impressions.

2. A historical entertainment using projected images to produce ghostly or fantastic appearances.

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Words that belong together

• nightmarish phantasmagoria
• visual phantasmagoria

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The fever turned the ceiling into a phantasmagoria of unfamiliar faces.

A visual phantasmagoria unfolded behind her closed eyelids.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular phantasmagoria; plural phantasmagorias. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.