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noun

Phantasm n. (Spelt also fantasm)

An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. "They be but phantasms or apparitions."

A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. "Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Phantasm" Quotes from Famous Books

... making towards it; because as yet I knew not that evil was nothing but a privation of good, until at last a thing ceases altogether to be; which how should I see, the sight of whose eyes reached only to bodies, and of my mind to a phantasm? And I knew not God to be a Spirit, not one who hath parts extended in length and breadth, or whose being was bulk; for every bulk is less in a part than in the whole: and if it be infinite, it must be less in ...

— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine

... replied. "I well know thou hast no power over her. Thou would'st place some phantasm before me. I would see her, ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... inquiring further whether he had any such right or not, why then should not the royalist assume, from the fact of the restoration, and the consequent obliteration of Cromwell's work, that the Protector was a usurper and a phantasm captain? ...

— Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I - Essay 2: Carlyle • John Morley

Words linked to "Phantasm" : wraith, spirit, Flying Dutchman, phantasma, shadow, semblance, fantasm, spook, unidentified flying object, illusion