ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Oniric

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /əʊˈnɪ.ɹɪk/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Oniric is an adjective meaning Alternative form of oneiric.

Meaning

Alternative form of oneiric.

Example Sentences

An oniric feeling permeates the whole film.
The foggy effect gives an oniric feeling to the whole picture.
Oniric or dream-like delirium is by far the commonest form the non-specialized practitioner has occasion to witness. … Oniric delirium is an actual somnambulistic state, a second state.
It may also reveal itself through a couple's mourning over a lost love which, mysteriously sublimated at the oniric level, suddenly surfaces as in the dreams of the protagonist in "Fat", or revisited through the Faulknerian theme of incest between a brother and sister, as in Furious Seasons.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include onirocritic, fantasmatic, phantasmical, imagistic, idealistical, paradisical.

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