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Antonyms for phantasma
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fan-taz-muh |
Phonetic Transcription : fænˈtæz mə |
Definition of phantasma
Origin :- 1590s, from Latin phantasma (see phantasm).
- noun dream
- noun ghost
- 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
Synonyms for phantasma
- apparition
- appearance
- banshee
- bogey
- bogeyman
- bogle
- bubble
- castle in the air
- chimera
- daemon
- daydream
- delusion
- demon
- devil
- eidolon
- ethereal being
- fancy
- fantasy
- fiction
- figment
- hallucination
- haunt
- head trip
- idea
- illusion
- image
- imagination
- impression
- incorporeal being
- incubus
- kelpie
- manes
- mental picture
- nightmare
- phantasm
- phantom
- pie in the sky
- pipe dream
- poltergeist
- rainbow
- revenant
- reverie
- shade
- shadow
- soul
- specter
- speculation
- spirit
- spook
- thought
- trance
- vagary
- vampire
- vision
- visitant
- visitor
- wraith
- zombie
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