phan|tas|ma|go|ri|a

phan|tas|ma|go|ri|a
phan|tas|ma|go|ri|a «fan TAZ muh GR ee uh, -GOHR-», noun.
1. a shifting scene of real things, illusions, imaginary fancies, deceptions, and the like: »

the phantasmagoria of a dream. Instead of a turreted town crammed with phantasmagoria, it now appeared before him as a plain, ordinary, workaday city (Harper's).

2. a show of optical illusions in which figures increase or decrease in size, fade away, and pass into each other.
╂[coined < Greek phántasma image, perhaps + ágorā assembly]

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