phantasmagoria

Etymology
From, from + possibly either  + the suffix  or.

Noun

 * 1)  A popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theatre entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed.
 * 2) A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
 * 3) A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
 * 4) * 1874,, Chapter V
 * It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
 * 1) * 1874,, Chapter V
 * It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

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