phantasm
an apparition or specter.
a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy.
a mental image or representation of a real object.
an illusory likeness of something.
Origin of phantasm
1- Sometimes fan·tasm
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How to use phantasm in a sentence
A phantasm is that which, not being a true counterpart of reality, is yet so like it as to be mistaken for reality.
His eyes stared wonderingly at the grotesque face like a lingering phantasm of fevered dreams.
Was all this nothing,—a dream, a splendid phantasm, to be rent away like a crimson cloud?
The Hill of Venus | Nathan GallizierHis desire to be with her was the desire to escape the phantasm of the woman haunting to subjugate him when they were separate.
The Amazing Marriage, Complete | George MeredithAt times faith grows faint, and I think it all a delusion—a phantasm—a dream.
Nuggets of the New Thought | William Walker Atkinson,
British Dictionary definitions for phantasm
/ (ˈfæntæzəm) /
a phantom
an illusory perception of an object, person, etc
(in the philosophy of Plato) objective reality as distorted by perception
Origin of phantasm
1Derived forms of phantasm
- phantasmal or phantasmic, adjective
- phantasmally or phantasmically, adverb
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