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Definition of phantasm - 4 dictionary results

phan⋅tasm

  [fan-taz-uhm]
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–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

Synonyms:
1. ghost, vision. See apparition. 4. hallucination, illusion.
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phan·tasm   (fān'tāz'əm)   
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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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 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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