Meaning of oniric | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B1]

Examples

“An oniric feeling permeates the whole film.”

“The foggy effect gives an oniric feeling to the whole picture.”

“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.”

“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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