phantasmagoric

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A lifetime of petting, of indulgence, threw its soothing influence over her perturbation, convincing her that somehow all this storm and stress must be phantasmagoric--a dream from which she was even now awakening into a clearer day of happiness.

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  1. Pertaining or relating to a phantasmagoria; of the nature of phantasmagoria; illusive; unreal.

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  • The city was awesome, madly perfect, phantasmagoric, better than the movies. —  Asimov's SF, June2006
  • In the words of one English teacher I tried (but failed) to daydream away: "They're phantasmagoric, boy!" —  Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
  • A lifetime of petting, of indulgence, threw its soothing influence over her perturbation, convincing her that somehow all this storm and stress must be phantasmagoric--a dream from which she was even now awakening into a clearer day of happiness. —  Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest
  • Bedded in strange vapors, the great foot-light cast a dubious, half demoniac glare across the waters, like the phantasmagoric stream sent athwart a London flagging in a night-rain from an apothecary's blue and green window. —  Israel Potter
  • This life could only become other than phantasmagoric, could only become real, as it stood related to something that was higher and permanent. —  The Function of the Poet and Other Essays
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  1. = French fantasmagorique, phantasmagoriqute = Spanish fantasimagórico; as phantasmagoria + -ic.
 

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