Difference between Surreal and Phantasmagoric

SURREAL vs PHANTASMAGORIC: ADJECTIVE

Characterized by or pertaining to a dream-like blurring of real and imaginary elements.
Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial.
Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions

Pertaining or relating to a phantasmagoria; of the nature of phantasmagoria; illusive; unreal.

Eerie, Weird, Imaginary, Surrealist, Preposterous, Odd, Absurd, Bizarre, Strange, Unrealistic, Phantasmagorical, Phantasmagoric, Dreamlike, Surrealistic, Unreal

Daliesque, Whimsical, Dreamy, Otherworldly, Grotesque, Trippy, Nightmarish, Fanciful, Kaleidoscopic, Dreamlike, Hallucinatory, Fantastical, Unrealistic, Surreal, Surrealistic

Eerie, Weird, Imaginary, Surrealist, Preposterous, Odd, Absurd, Bizarre, Strange, Unrealistic, Phantasmagorical, Phantasmagoric, Dreamlike, Surrealistic, Unreal

Daliesque, Whimsical, Dreamy, Otherworldly, Grotesque, Trippy, Nightmarish, Fanciful, Kaleidoscopic, Dreamlike, Hallucinatory, Fantastical, Unrealistic, Surreal, Surrealistic

It was a little surreal watching him win.
Seeing her for the first time was surreal.
But there have been a few surreal moments.
Still, seeing himself abused like that was surreal.
All turning points in a stretching, surreal timeline.
Holding the big one is a surreal experience.
It just seemed like such a surreal occurrence.
Dark, surreal, thoughtprovoking and at points satirical journey.
Be inspired by surrealism to write a surreal story and create a surreal landscape with this Tate Kids activity.
Ask Jennifer Lawrence about the most surreal moment of her very surreal past year, and she has an instant answer.

The phantasmagoric imagination of the gothic actually begins to provide many of the metaphors for how we conceive of our modern subjectivity.
Aurora Borealis and, above all, the phantasmagoric ice contributed to the idea of the north as a realm of fantastic spectacles.
The red demons of thirst assailed me; and fever came, and delirium, to people the waste with phantasmagoric shadows.
Portable lighting rigs add a phantasmagoric orange and green veneer to the self-choreography of figures in trance states that can last for hours.
Others explore the phantasmagoric aspect of space itself, starting with the immaterial relief of urbanscapes.
Paris arcades into the motorized landscapes of Southern California and the phantasmagoric spaces produced by electronic technologies.
This phantasmagoric aspect of science always helped science to be accepted by the public.
During the day, Cohen worked on sexy, phantasmagoric novels and poems.