oneiric
/oʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to dreams.
adj
Resembling a dream; dreamlike.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
From oneir- + -ic, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀνείρειος (oneíreios).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /oʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/
- British English: /əʊˈnaɪ.ɹɪk/