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phantasmatical
phan·tas·mal
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fænˈtæz
məl
/
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fan-
taz
-m
uh
l
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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
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ˌfæn
tæzˈmæt
ɪk
/
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fan-taz-
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,
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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phantasm
(ˈfæntæzəm)
—
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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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