phantasm

• fantasm

Borrowed from Old French fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæntæzəm/
• Hyphenation: phan‧tasm

phantasm (plural phantasms)

1. something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:

     He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.

• phantasmal
• phantasmic

• fancy
• fantasize
• fantastic
• fantasy
• phantasmatic
• phantom

• phantasm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• phantasm in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• phantasm at OneLook Dictionary Search

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