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单词 phantasm
释义 phan·tasm
noun
or fan·tasm \ˈfan.ˌtazəm\
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English fantasme, from Old French, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein to present to the mind — more at fancy
1. : a product of phantasy: as
 a. : delusive appearance : illusion, deception
  < a fleeting phantasm, born and gone, intangible as a flash of lightning — Heinrich Zimmer >
 b. : ghost, specter, spirit
  < phantasms of the dark >
 c. : a figment of the imagination, fancy, or disordered mind : an imaginative conception : fantasy, dream, delusion
  < twilight phantasms, and deep noonday thought — P.B.Shelley >
  < husband who is “an utter coward” about the phantasms of his own imagination — Scott Fitzgerald >
  < now first the cloud of phantasms cleared away: he beheld his real life — George Meredith >
2. : a mental image or representation of a real object : a sensuous idea or impression — compare species 2b
 < all of the sensible qualities are but phantasms of the observer, not properties of the object — Douglas Bush >
3.
 a. obsolete : one that counterfeits the real or true
 b. : a deceptive or illusory appearance of a thing : shadow, adumbration
  < follow phantasms of truth >
  < grasping at every phantasm of hope >
4. : an apparition of a living or dead person in a place where his body is known not to be
Synonyms: see fancy
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