Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma.
An illusory mental image. Also called phantasma.
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.
phan·tas·ma (fān-tāz'mə) n.
pl.phan·tas·ma·ta (-mə-tə) See phantasm.