phantasmagoria

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a shifting sequence of strange or fantastic images

   The fever produced a phantasmagoria of faces and lights.

2. 2
   noun

   a show using optical effects to create ghostly images

   The theater advertised a phantasmagoria for the crowd.

Borrowed from French phantasmagorie, formed from Ancient Greek φάντασμα ("phantom, apparition") with a second element perhaps related to ἀγορά ("assembly") or ἀγορεύειν ("to speak").

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