oniric

See also: oníric

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əʊ.ˈnɪ.ɹɪk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /oʊ.ˈnɪ.ɹɪk/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ni‧ric

Adjective

oniric (comparative more oniric, superlative most oniric)

  1. Alternative form of oneiric
    An oniric feeling permeates the whole film.
    The foggy effect gives an oniric feeling to the whole picture.
    • 1923, Clinical Diagnosis: Case Examination and the Analysis of Symptoms, Vol. 2, p. 785–786:
      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.
    • 2006, Gigliola Nocera, "Raymond Carver's America profonda", Journal of the Short Story in English, No. 46, online version:
      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.

References

  • "oniric", MondoFacto Medical Dictionary

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French onirique.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈni.rik/

Adjective

oniric m or n (feminine singular onirică, masculine plural onirici, feminine and neuter plural onirice)

  1. oneiric

Declension

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