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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fan-taz-muh
Phonetic Transcription : fænˈtæz mə



Definition of phantasma

Origin :
  • 1590s, from Latin phantasma (see phantasm).
  • noun dream
  • noun ghost
Example sentences :
  • They seemed like the Orama of the Greeks,—prophets while phantasma.
  • Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • Claudius meanwhile pumped out the air-bubble of his soul, and thereafter, as a phantasma, ceased to be visible.
  • Extract from : « Wanderings in Corsica, Vol. 1 of 2 » by Ferdinand Gregorovius
  • Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And 60 the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
  • Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
  • Phantasma enim est sentiendi actus; neque differt a sensione, aliter quam fieri differt a factum esse.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) » by Thomas Brown
  • The idea or phantasma, as he terms it, is the very perception or actus sentiendi.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) » by Thomas Brown
  • Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma.
  • Extract from : « Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 » by Various
  • Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by Various
  • Shakespeare seems to use it ('phantasma') in this passage in the sense of nightmare, which it bears in Italian.
  • Extract from : « The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar » by William Shakespeare

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