oneirism
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oneirism (plural oneirisms)
- (rare) Dream-like experiences or qualities; dreaminess.
- 1976, Neuropsychiatry and the War, page 108:
- Following great explosions two forms of mental trouble have been found so frequently that other manifestations have become almost exceptional. These are mental confusion and delirious oneirism.
- 1990, Paul Ricœur, Time and Narrative, volume 2, page 138:
- With an almost imperceptible touch, the narrator connects up this oneirism of names with the premonitory signs of the vocation that Remebrance is said to recount.
- (psychiatry) A state of abnormal consciousness in which dream-like experiences and hallucinations happen while awake.
Translations[edit]
dream-like experiences or qualities