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Also, fantasm.
Origin:
1175–1225; < Latin phantasma < Greek phántasma image, vision (akin to phantázein to bring before the mind); replacing Middle English fantesme < Old French < Latin as above
1175–1225; < Latin phantasma < Greek phántasma image, vision (akin to phantázein to bring before the mind); replacing Middle English fantesme < Old French < Latin as above
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Phantasm
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- Grossman's talent as a spinner of tales, his uncanny ability to weave together phantasm and psychological.
- Myles has the task of turning a phantasm of adolescent desire into a real person.
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Word Origin & History
phantasm
early 13c., 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").
EXPANDSpelling conformed to Latin from 16c.
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phantasm phan·tasm (fān'tāz'əm)
n.
Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; an apparition.
An illusory mental image.
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