英语词汇phantasmagoria的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

phantasmagoria. The word is defined as “a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or created by the imagination,” but it can also mean “a chang- ing scene made up of many elements.” It was apparently coined in 1802 by a London showman named Philipstal to describe his magic-lantern exhibition of optical illusions. The word may be based on phantasm or phantom, but “the inventor of the term probably only wanted a mouth-filling and startling term . . .” and no clear etymology is known.

词汇	phantasmagoria
词源	phantasmagoria. The word is defined as “a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or created by the imagination,” but it can also mean “a chang- ing scene made up of many elements.” It was apparently coined in 1802 by a London showman named Philipstal to describe his magic-lantern exhibition of optical illusions. The word may be based on phantasm or phantom, but “the inventor of the term probably only wanted a mouth-filling and startling term . . .” and no clear etymology is known.
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