phantasm

[ fan-taz-uhm ]
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noun
  1. an apparition or specter.

  2. a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy.

  1. a mental image or representation of a real object.

  2. an illusory likeness of something.

Origin of phantasm

1
First recorded in 1175–1225; from Latin phantasma, from Greek phántasma “image, vision” (akin to phantázein “to bring before the mind”); replacing Middle English fantesme, from Old French, from Latin as above
  • Sometimes fan·tasm

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1. See apparition.

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phantasm

/ (ˈfæntæzəm) /


noun
  1. a phantom

  2. an illusory perception of an object, person, etc

  1. (in the philosophy of Plato) objective reality as distorted by perception

Origin of phantasm

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C13: from Old French fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Greek; related to Greek phantazein to cause to be seen, from phainein to show

Derived forms of phantasm

  • phantasmal or phantasmic, adjective
  • phantasmally or phantasmically, adverb

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