phantasmallyadv.
/fanˈtazml̩i/, /fanˈtazməli/, U.S. /fænˈtæzməli/ In a phantasmal manner or form; as a phantasm.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adverb] > merely apparent
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1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 103 The belief that this causation descends into the sensible world, and takes place therein not phantasmally, but actually.
1886 E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living II. Suppl. 530 Persons are phantasmally seen or heard very soon before their actual appearance in the flesh.
1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 25 The occasional power of some agent to project himself phantasmally; to make himself manifest, as though in actual presence, to some percipient at a distance.
1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave ii. 24 This is how Franz first saw the city—fantasmally tinted, ethereal, impregnated with swimming colors, in no way resembling his crude provincial dream.
2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Jan. e1/1 The front of the stage..is walled in clear plastic, and you can see most of the audience mirrored phantasmally therein.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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