'Phantasm' definitions:
Definition of 'phantasm'
From: WordNet
noun
A ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre]
noun
Something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow]
Definition of 'Phantasm'
From: GCIDE
- Phantasm \Phan"tasm\, n. [L. phantasma. See Phantom, and cf. Fantasm.] [Spelt also fantasm.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- They be but phantasms or apparitions. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. --Cudworth. [1913 Webster]
- Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'phantasm'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apparition,
- appearance,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- bamboozlement,
- banshee,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- control,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- departed spirit,
- disembodied spirit,
- dupery,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figure,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- form,
- ghost,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- hallucination,
- hant,
- haunt,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- larva,
- lemures,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manes,
- Masan,
- materialization,
- mirage,
- myth,
- oni,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- presence,
- putting on,
- revenant,
- romance,
- self-deception,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- sick fancy,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- spook,
- sprite,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- theophany,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unsubstantiality,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dream,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wraith,
- zombie