Phantasmagoria vs Hallucination - What's the difference?
phantasmagoria | hallucination |
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
A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
:* Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. -
The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
:* This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. -
As nouns the difference between phantasmagoria and hallucination
is that phantasmagoria is a popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theatre entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed; a magic lantern while hallucination is a sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.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.