a changing scene of real or imagined figures, for example as seen in a dream or created as an effect in a film (真实或幻觉形象的)变换情景,幻觉效应 Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally the name of a London exhibition (1802) of optical illusions produced chiefly by magic lantern): probably from French fantasmagorie, from fantasme ‘phantasm’ + a fanciful suffix.