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Definition of phantasmal - 2 dictionary results

phan⋅tas⋅mal

  [fan-taz-muhl]
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–adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
Also, phan⋅tas⋅mic, phan⋅tas⋅mi⋅cal, phan⋅tas⋅mat⋅ic  [fan-taz-mat-ik] , phan⋅tas⋅mat⋅i⋅cal.

Origin:
1805–15; phantasm + -al 1

Related forms:
phan⋅tas⋅mal⋅i⋅ty, noun
phan⋅tas⋅mal⋅ly, phan⋅tas⋅mi⋅cal⋅ly, phan⋅tas⋅mat⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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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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