oneiric

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/oʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/(US)
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/oʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/(US) · /əʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/(UK)

Definition of oneiric

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or pertaining to dreams.
    “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.”
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adj

  1. Of or pertaining to dreams.
    “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.”
  2. Resembling a dream; dreamlike.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From oneir- + -ic, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀνείρειος (oneíreios).

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