oneiric

comparative more oneiric · superlative most oneiric · alternative oniric

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.

   2007, Khaled Besbes, The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre, →ISBN, page 238

2. Resembling a dream; dreamlike.

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   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.

   2007, Richard John Neupert, A History of the French New Wave Cinema, →ISBN, page 109

   […] 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.

   2013 September 21, Thomas Marks, “The Memory Palace: a Book of Lost Interiors, by Edward Hollis, review [print edition: Compendium of things now missing]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R29

   Synonyms: dreamish, dreamy, dreamlike