oneiric

English

Alternative forms

• oniric

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊ.ˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊ.ˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: o‧nei‧ric

Adjective

oneiric (comparative more oneiric, superlative most oneiric)

1. Of or pertaining to dreams.
   • 2007, Khaled Besbes, The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre, →ISBN, page 238:

     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.

   Synonyms: dreamish, dreamy, dreamlike

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

     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.

   • 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)‎^[1], page R29:

     […] 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.

Related terms

• oneirism
• oneirocritic
• oneirologist
• oneirology
• oneiromancer
• oneiromancy
• oneironaut
• oneirophobia

 

Translations

of or pertaining to dreams

• Arabic: حلم (ar)
• Armenian: երազական (hy) (erazakan), երազային (hy) (erazayin)
• Catalan: oníric (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夢中的／梦中的 (zh) (mèngzhōng de), 夢的／梦的 (zh), 梦的 (mèng de), 睡眠的 (zh) (shuìmián de)

• Czech: snový
• Dutch: droom- (nl)
• Esperanto: sonĝa
• Finnish: uni- (fi), oneirinen
• French: onirique (fr)
• German: verträumt (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὀνείρειος m (oneíreios), ὀνειρείᾱ f (oneireíā)

  Modern Greek: ονειρικός (el) (oneirikós)

• Hungarian: álom- (hu), álommal kapcsolatos
• Italian: onirico (it)
• Japanese: 夢の (夢の)
• Polish: oniryczny, senny (pl)
• Portuguese: sonial (pt)
• Romanian: oniric (ro)
• Russian: онири́ческий (oniríčeskij), со́нный (ru) (sónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: oniričan (sh)
• Spanish: onírico (es)

resembling a dream; dreamlike — see dreamlike

Anagrams

• ironice