Phantasmagoria vs Chimera - What's the difference?
phantasmagoria | chimera |
A popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theatre entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed; a magic lantern.
A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
(mythology) Chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals
A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author
(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes
(architecture) A grotesque, like a gargoyle but without a spout for rainwater
(usually chimaera ) A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
As nouns the difference between phantasmagoria and chimera
is that phantasmagoria is a popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theatre entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed; a magic lantern while chimera is chimera.phantasmagoria
English
(wikipedia phantasmagoria)Alternative forms
* phantasmagory * fantasmagoriaNoun
(en noun)- This mental phantasmagoria .
- 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.
