phantasmagorical

== English == === Etymology === From phantasmagoria +‎ -ical. === Adjective === phantasmagorical (comparative more phantasmagorical, superlative most phantasmagorical) Synonym of phantasmagoric. 1886, Julian Hawthorne, Confessions and Criticisms, ch. 3 "Americanism in Fiction": Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the actual events of real lives." ==== Derived terms ==== phantasmagorically === References ===