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phan⋅tas⋅ma

  [fan-taz-muh]
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–noun, plural -ma⋅ta  [-muh-tuh] .
phantasm (defs. 1, 2).
Origin:
1590–1600; < L
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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.
phan·tas·ma   (fān-tāz'mə)   
n.   pl. phan·tas·ma·ta (-mə-tə)
See phantasm.

[Ultimately from Greek phantasma; see phantasm.]
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