Definition of: fantasmagoria

(fan·taz′mə·gôr′ē·ə, -gō′rē·ə) noun
1. A changing, incoherent series of apparitions or fantasms.
2. An exhibition of pictures projected on a screen and made to increase or diminish in size rapidly while continually in focus. Also fan·tas′ma·go′ry: also spelled phantasmagoria. [<NL <Gk. phantasma an apparition + prob. agora assembly, crowd]
—fan·tas′ma·go′ri·al, fan·tas′ma·gor′ic (-gôr′ik, -gor′-) or ·i·cal adjective