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oneirocriticism

[ oh-nahy-ruh-krit-uh-siz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the art of interpreting dreams.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of oneirocriticism1

First recorded in 1605–15; oneirocritic + -ism
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Malone quotes this very memorandum, which he discovered in Oldys’s Langbaine, to show Dryden had some confidence in Oneirocriticism, and supposed that future events were sometimes prognosticated by dreams.

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Associated words: Morpheus, Morphean, oneiroscopy, oneiroscopist, oneirocritic, oneiromancy, oneirology, oneirocriticism, nightmare. dreamer, n. visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder, John-a-dreams. dreamy, a. visionary, unreal, illusory.

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Oneirocriticism, or the art of interpreting dreams, seems of all the modes of prediction the most inseparable from the nature of man.

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