Phantasmagoria

I imagine a kaleidoscope or an eclectic collection of things in a photograph from one of the old ‘I Spy’ books. The first part of the word ‘phantasm-”, reminds me of the word phantom, i.e. a shadow or something with an equally evanescent quality. The ‘-goria’ part recalls a bright assembly of knickknacks and doodads. The word means a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined or a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage. This word makes me wish ‘floatatious’ was a word I could describe it with.

Alexandra
Plano, Texas