oniric

comparative more oniric · superlative most oniric

1. alternativeAlternative form of oneiric.

   An oniric feeling permeates the whole film.

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   The foggy effect gives an oniric feeling to the whole picture.

   Oniric or dream-like delirium is by far the commonest form the non-specialized practitioner has occasion to witness. … Oniric delirium is an actual somnambulistic state, a second state.

   1923, Clinical Diagnosis: Case Examination and the Analysis of Symptoms, Vol. 2, p. 785–786

   It may also reveal itself through a couple's mourning over a lost love which, mysteriously sublimated at the oniric level, suddenly surfaces as in the dreams of the protagonist in "Fat", or revisited through the Faulknerian theme of incest between a brother and sister, as in Furious Seasons.

   2006, Gigliola Nocera, "Raymond Carver's America profonda", Journal of the Short Story in English, No. 46, online version