Heritage Illustrated Dictionary IE

Phantasmagoria - n. 1. A fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever. 2. Such imagery as represented in art. [Originally, the name of an early 19th-century magic-lantern show producing optical illusions, from PHANTASM + an obscure second element.] -phantas'magor'ic, phantas'magor'ical adj.