Timeline for An adjective for an event that happened in a night dream
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| Feb 25, 2018 at 18:09 | vote | accept | Victor B. | ||
| Feb 12, 2018 at 12:18 | answer | added | Jelila | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | TimR | IMO, the authors are misusing the term oneiric. It doesn't mean "occurring in a particular dream", or perhaps I should say it hasn't meant that. It's a thesaurus word, by which I mean you find it used by college freshmen hoping to sound sophisticated. | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | user3395 |
@Tᴚoɯɐuo Google Books says: "as we may judge from his oneiric encounter with the emperor Marcus Aurelius... 'I dreamed that along with my teacher Alexander I approached the emperor'", "dream ends with the same reassuring message that sealed the oneiric encounter with Rabbi Shim'on", "experience of seeing the house exactly as he remembers it from his dream (the oneiric encounter he had previously from abroad)". These examples (of which there are more than for dreamed encounter) show that's exactly what it's supposed to mean, and it looks fine in literary texts.
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| Feb 11, 2018 at 18:31 | comment | added | TimR | @userr2684291: Even if we twisted the meaning of oneiric encounter to mean "encounter ... dreamed about", the register is totally wacko. | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 16:57 | comment | added | user3395 | @Tᴚoɯɐuo I'm aware of that, but you could contrast the real thing with the in-dream one (by the way, in-dream does have one result on Google Books so that might be understandable) using oneiric. And now that we know the noun is in fact encounter, oneiric encounter doesn't even sound that bad. | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 16:17 | comment | added | TimR | my dreamed encounter with Yeltsin would not be ungrammatical, but it would be more naturally expressed as the dream where I encountered Yeltsin Past-tense encountered would make it clear that this is not a wish or hope you're speaking about (my dream, where I encounter...) but a sleep-dream. | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:43 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:40 | history | edited | Victor B. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:30 | comment | added | TimR | oneiric means "related to dreams and dreaming" and does not refer or apply to something from an actual dream. In reference to my example below, we would not say "the oneiric rabbit". | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:24 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | TimR | Your question is unclear. Please give the sample sentence where you want to use this word, if it exists. I take it that you are trying to avoid saying "The game in my dream" for some arbitrary reason that has nothing to do with the English language. | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 14:51 | comment | added | user3395 | How about oneiric? I know it's relatively rare, but since your crossword puzzle accepts one word... | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 14:29 | history | asked | Victor B. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |