phantasmic

 [fan-taz-muhl]  

phan·tas·mal

   [fan-taz-muhl]
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 + -al1

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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World English Dictionary
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

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