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Definition of Oneiric
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or suggestive of dreams.
Definition of Oneiric
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to dreams. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a dream; dreamlike. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oneiric
1. pertaining to dreams [adj]
Medical Definition of Oneiric
1. 1. Pertaining to dreams. 2. Pertaining to the clinical state of oneirophrenia. Synonym: oniric. Origin: G. Oneiros, dream (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oneiric
Literary usage of Oneiric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"oneiric, Oniric (o-ni'-rik) ... [see oneiric]. A condition of cerebral automatism
analogous to the dream state, as a dream prolonged to the waking period. ..."
2. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"Many such kinds of experience may show the first surface of cleavage of a second,
off, or dual personality. The fission may begin when some oneiric ..."
3. The Psychology of Functional Neuroses by Harry Levi Hollingworth (1920)
"The thud of a distant cannon or some metallic noise will often be sufficient to
provoke an emotional attack with all the phenomena of oneiric delirium. ..."
4. Neuropsychiatry and the War: A Bibliography with Abstracts by Mabel Webster Brown, Frankwood Earl Williams (1918)
"... 11 Melancholia 24 Post-confusional insanity 1 Post-confusional melancholia 4
Mental confusion with agitation 1 Post-oneiric delusion of persecution 1 ..."
5. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... to special circumstances and to gifted observers (aesthetes such as Aragon
and Breton who make the Parisian shopping arcades into oneiric spaces). ..."
6. Ed Annink, Designer by Ed van Hinte (2002)
"... Ed's unravelling of all the potential interpretations of the oneiric story
line, whether in a desert or on a speeding train - hedonic, agonic, ..."
7. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"Sometimes there are oneiric hallucinations, the images of which are prolonged
into the conscious state, and possess strong determinative power. ..."
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