dreamlike

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English

Etymology

From dream +‎ -like.

Adjective

dreamlike (comparative more dreamlike, superlative most dreamlike)

  1. Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
    Synonyms: dreamish, dreamy, oneiric
    Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss.
    • 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
      The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi, “Diana's Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients.
    • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:
      Even when the legend is of an actual historical personage, the deeds of victory are rendered, not in lifelike, but in dreamlike figurations; for the point is not that such-and-such was done on earth; the point is that, before such-and-such could be done on earth, this other, more important, primary thing had to be brought to pass within the labyrinth that we all know and visit in our dreams.

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