"oniric" meaning in English

See oniric in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /əʊ.ˈnɪ.ɹɪk/ [UK], /oʊ.ˈnɪ.ɹɪk/ [US] Forms: more oniric [comparative], most oniric [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} oniric (comparative more oniric, superlative most oniric)
  1. Alternative form of oneiric Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: oneiric Related terms: onirocritic
    Sense id: en-oniric-en-adj-x8QJ7DFC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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      "form": "more oniric",
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        {
          "text": "An oniric feeling permeates the whole film.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The foggy effect gives an oniric feeling to the whole picture.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Clinical Diagnosis: Case Examination and the Analysis of Symptoms, Vol. 2, p. 785–786",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Gigliola Nocera, \"Raymond Carver's America profonda\", Journal of the Short Story in English, No. 46, online version",
          "text": "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."
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      "ipa": "/oʊ.ˈnɪ.ɹɪk/",
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      "form": "more oniric",
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        "comparative"
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        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1923, Clinical Diagnosis: Case Examination and the Analysis of Symptoms, Vol. 2, p. 785–786",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Gigliola Nocera, \"Raymond Carver's America profonda\", Journal of the Short Story in English, No. 46, online version",
          "text": "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."
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