phantasmicadj.
/fanˈtazmɪk/, U.S. /fænˈtæzmɪk/ = phantasmal adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [adjective]
visional1647
visionary1648
phantasmical1678
phantasmal1805
visioned1817
phantasmic1825
1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 185 His shadowy monarch is assailed by ideal conspirators, and their phantasmic high treason he will have atoned for by substantial flesh and blood.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia vi. 49 The spectacle..was not phantasmic, but real.
1901 R. W. Buchanan Compl. Poet. Wks. II. xii. 133 As I paused In terror, watching those phantasmic shapes, One like a naked man pass'd by me shrieking And plunged to some black gulf that yawn'd beneath.
1950 M. Peake Gormenghast xix. 119 From its heaving expanses arose..a phantasmic gathering of ancient oaks.
2001 Evening Standard (Nexis) 10 Sept. 55 As the phantasmic alter ego, Charlie Folorunsho brings hectoring humour and harrying distress to the mental karma of the anxious hero.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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