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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

oneiric en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /oʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/ (US)
  • /əʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more oneiric Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most oneiric Degree=Sup lexicographic
oniric alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

oneirically

Relateds

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

Synonyms

dreamish · dreamlike · dreamy

Translations (30)

cs snový (of or pertaining to dreams) · el ονειρικός (of or pertaining to dreams) · hu álom- (of or pertaining to dreams) · ro oniric (of or pertaining to dreams) · ru онири́ческий (of or pertaining to dreams) · hu álommal kapcsolatos (of or pertaining to dreams) · fi oneirinen (of or pertaining to dreams) · pl oniryczny (of or pertaining to dreams) · grc ὀνείρειος (of or pertaining to dreams) · sh oniričan (of or pertaining to dreams) · de verträumt (of or pertaining to dreams) · ca oníric (of or pertaining to dreams) · cmn 梦的 (of or pertaining to dreams) · hy երազական (of or pertaining to dreams) · hy երազային (of or pertaining to dreams) · es onírico (of or pertaining to dreams) · eo sonĝa (of or pertaining to dreams) · ja 夢の (of or pertaining to dreams) · ru со́нный (of or pertaining to dreams) · ar حلم (of or pertaining to dreams) · pl senny (of or pertaining to dreams) · nl droom- (of or pertaining to dreams) · cmn 夢的 /梦的 (of or pertaining to dreams) · pt sonial (of or pertaining to dreams) · it onirico (of or pertaining to dreams) · grc ὀνειρείᾱ (of or pertaining to dreams) · cmn 夢中的 /梦中的 (of or pertaining to dreams) · fi uni- (of or pertaining to dreams) · cmn 睡眠的 (of or pertaining to dreams) · fr onirique (of or pertaining to dreams)