noun

• A sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream.

  ‘what happened next was a phantasmagoria of horror and mystery’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Someone had set up a strobe light in the back, so the dancing figures were in silhouette, and their movements appeared to consist of a series of slides; like the images from a phantasmagoria.’
  • ‘NBC producer David Michaels and director John Gonzalez put a phantasmagoria of images up on screen in the more than an hour-and-a-half of the telecast.’
  • ‘These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.’
  • ‘He creates a bad-dream atmosphere, a phantasmagoria of boredom, futile journeys, wasted lives and endless, incantatory meetings.’
  • ‘Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape.’

  Synonyms

  delusion, illusion, figment of the imagination, vision, apparition, mirage, chimera, fantasy, dream, daydream