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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024phan•tasm (fan′taz əm),USA pronunciation n. - Mythologyan apparition or specter.
- a creation of the imagination or fancy;
fantasy. - a mental image or representation of a real object.
- an illusory likeness of something.
Also, fantasm. - Latin as above
- Old French
- Greek phántasma image, vision (akin to phantázein to bring before the mind); replacing Middle English fantesme
- Latin phantasma
- 1175–1225
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged ghost, vision. See apparition.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hallucination, illusion.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: phantasm /ˈfæntæzəm/ n - a phantom
- an illusory perception of an object, person, etc
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Greek; related to Greek phantazein to cause to be seen, from phainein to showphanˈtasmal, phanˈtasmic adj |