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phantasm (ˈfæntæzəm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a phantom |
| 2. | an illusory perception of an object, person, etc |
| 3. | (in the philosophy of Plato) objective reality as distorted by perception |
| [C13: from Old French fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Greek; related to Greek phantazein to cause to be seen, from phainein to show] | |
| phan'tasmal | |
| —adj | |
| phan'tasmic | |
| —adj | |
| phan'tasmally | |
| —adv | |
| phan'tasmically | |
| —adv | |
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Phantasmal
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