oneiricとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /oʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/
• (英国発音) IPA: /əʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/
• ハイフネーション: o‧nei‧ric

形容詞

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)‎, 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.

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