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phan·tasm    Audio Help   [fan-taz-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.an apparition or specter.
2.a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy.
3.a mental image or representation of a real object.
4.an illusory likeness of something.
Also, fantasm.


[Origin: 1175–1225; < L phantasma < Gk phántasma image, vision (akin to phantázein to bring before the mind); r. ME fantesme < OF < L as above]

1. ghost, vision. See apparition. 4. hallucination, illusion.
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phan·tasm    Audio Help   (fān'tāz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma.
  2. An illusory mental image. Also called phantasma.
  3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses.


[Middle English fantasme, from Old French, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein, to make visible, from phantos, visible, from phainein, to show; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.]

phan·tas'mal (fān-tāz'məl), phan·tas'mic (-tāz'mĭk) adj.
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phantasm 
c.1225, fantesme, from O.Fr. fantasme, from L. phantasma "an apparition, specter," from Gk. phantasma "image, phantom," from phantazein "to make visible, display," from stem of phainein "to show," from PIE base *bha- "to shine" (cf. Skt. bhati "shines, glitters," O.Ir. ban "white, light, ray of light"). Spelling conformed to L. from 16c.

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phantasm

noun
1. a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition
2. something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition

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phantasm phan·tasm (fān'tāz'əm)
n.

  1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; an apparition.
  2. An illusory mental image.

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Main Entry: phan·tasm
Pronunciation: 'fan-"taz-&m
Function: noun
1 : a figment of the imagination or disordered mind
2 : an apparition of a living or dead person

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Phantasm

Fan"tasm\, n. [See Phantasm, Fancy.] Same as Phantasm.

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