Oneiric

Quick meaning: Oneiric is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to dreams.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to dreams.

More Meanings

1. Resembling a dream; dreamlike.

Example Sentences

Dreams contain oneiric images and oneiric symbols. Both of them are, in fact, 'distorted' manifestations of a latent content which resides in the dreamer's unconscious.

Rather, novelist Louise de Vilmorin, whose popular novel Madame de had been recently filmed by Max Ophuls, joined Malle in reworking Denon's novella and updating it into a combination of a modern comedy of manners and a daring, even oneiric love story that played with and defied many conventions of the romance genre.

[…] The Memory Palace [is] Edward Hollis's idiosyncratic tour of a series of historical interiors that have all disappeared or been dismantled. […] Hollis might have done far more with literature's unique contribution to our sense of domestic space as both commemorative and creative. […] [A]mid all the palaces with their dreamlike interiors, there is puzzlingly no place for the many oneiric palaces of poetry.

Synonyms for oneiric

Depending on context, synonyms include dreamish, dreamy, dreamlike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oniric, oneirocritical, oneiroscopic, oneirocritic, oneirotic, oneiroid.

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