phantasmagoria• The product of wishful and naive thinking - nothing but a crueldeceit: a phantasmagoria.• Soon enough, however, Pelevin veers off into his trademarkphilosophicalphantasmagoria.• Quirky buildings are often just that: oddballs, curios, rococophantasmagoria that quickly pall.• This phantasmagoria is not entirely original.
Originphantasmagoria
(1800-1900)Frenchphantasme (from Old Frenchfantasme; → PHANTASM) + -agorie (probably from Greekageirein“to collect together”)