Definitions
Etymologies
- Greek oneiros, dream + -ic.
Examples
“Wieseltier often employs bafflingly obscurantist, elliptical, oneiric swirls of thought meant to wow his readers with his putative Kant-like gifts.”
“Spence's haze suggests an oneiric perception of reality...”
The Huffington Post: Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station
“Margaret Robertson on Halo's oneiric call to adventure: Halo is a place where I feel peaceful.”
“At night I had vividly-colored dreams — my oneiric life was bright, well-sighted, visionary in the truest sense.”
“The Ghost's chassis stiffness — the source of its fantastic ride quality, dynamic competence and hushed, oneiric quiet — is all the more remarkable considering the four enormous holes in the body.”
“They photographed his oneiric head against a Baroque ceiling.”
“We can scale up an oxymoron such as "He froze, turning his head slowly to look," into the more complex sort of narrative non sequiturs we get in absurdist or surrealist fiction, the discontinuities that give these works their oneiric quality, the discombobulation engendered where the sentences don't build up into a sensible sequence.”
“Pataphysical quirks such as these often invite a reading of the narrative as oneiric, the discontinuities modeled on those of dreams, the whole narrative as a representation of a dream even.”
“The snout of desire is clearly Freudian and harkens perhaps to pre-birth experiences …. or may be alternately interpreted as a spontaneous oneiric image.”
“But the only thing that will end this oneiric sequence of being shut in and forced out, is the end of the immigration restrictions for Cubans.”
Yoani Sanchez: The Coca-Cola of Forgetting or The Cane Juice of Nostalgia
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oneiric’.
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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soliloquy, eros, agape, solipsism, palimpsest, fabulist, lore, raconteur, harbinger, anamnesis, sattvic, comprecation and 20 more...
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tatterdemalion's list
chrysalis, colloquy, peroration, syncretism, dickering, gamelan, dictatress, adventurism, untenable, presumption of fa..., lovelorn, bawdily and 47 more...
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::: Words I llike the DEFINITIONS of :::
The dichotomy of a word .... and yes *dichotomy* would be on this very list.
inflection, syntax, morpheme, oneiric, phantasmagoria, poetess, convalescence, thoughtful, sober, searching, deep, meaningful and 1 more...
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jeffrey.t.whitney's list
sartorial, sabbatarian, sagacious, desiccate, ersatz, insouciant, atavistic, luddite, crwth, obdurate, stentorian, ruminate and 51 more...
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Not Your Typical
wanderlust, querdenker, dodrantal, soporific, vicious, ampersand, desiderative, cynosure, sybaritic, ubiquitous, orthogonal, lacuna and 68 more...
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theyearofglad's list
Awesome words.
palimpsest, portmanteau, prolix, sycophant, eschew, revenant, haecceity, velleity, equipoise, caesura, soteriology, inchoate and 23 more...
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cxkang's list
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ize, registrant, captious, emetic, anathema, capacious, cumbrous, oneiric, ineffable
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meaning
meaning of words I like...
paradox, inure, obiter dictum, solemnity, catachresis, pique, expiate, oneiric, hittade, consanguinity
Casey "There were other cities and countries and continents in these dreams. Some were doubtless dreamlands born behind flickering eyelids. Others seemed references: oneiric nods to solid places, cities and towns and villages as real as New Crobuzon, with architecture and argots that Isaac had not seen or heard." From Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Dec 5, 2011
wordlover42 Cool word! Now how to fit this one into a conversation.. "I had the weirdest oneiric vision last night as I was speelping" Jun 20, 2009
rolig an excellent word. It is interesting that English adjectives deriving from "dream" cannot really be used to talk about actual dreaming: "dreamy" and "dreamlike" both mean something quite different from "relating to dreaming". This is where "oneiric" comes in handy: oneiric images, oneiric symbols, the oneiric dimension, an oneiric situation. Sometimes using "dream" as an adjective works, but at other times that can be confusing. Dec 27, 2007
fer_k purple and dark red word (yes, I think words have colors). Sep 28, 2007
fbharjo oneiric a dream word Jan 12, 2007