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Synonyms for phantasm
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fan-taz-uhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæn tæz əm |
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Définition of phantasm
Origin :- early 13c., fantesme, from Old French fantosme "a dream, illusion, fantasy; apparition, ghost, phantom" (12c.), and directly from Latin phantasma "an apparition, specter," from Greek phantasma "image, phantom, apparition; mere image, unreality," from phantazein "to make visible, display," from stem of phainein "to bring to light, make appear; come to light, be seen, appear; explain, expound, inform against; appear to be so," from PIE root *bha- (1) "to shine" (cf. Sanskrit bhati "shines, glitters," Old Irish ban "white, light, ray of light"). Spelling conformed to Latin from 16c. (see ph). A spelling variant of phantom, "differentiated, but so that the differences are elusive" [Fowler].
- noun illusion
- It may have been but a phantasm, born of her own fevered imagination.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- It is a phantasm which has little or no connection with fact.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Yet, that experience had the sharpness of fact; while this had only the vagueness of a phantasm.
- Extract from : « The Millionaire Baby » by Anna Katharine Green
- Then no exaggeration was too absurd for him, no phantasm too unreal, no climax too extreme.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain » by Archibald Henderson
- Perhaps this is true—the world a phantasm and our minds fooling us.
- Extract from : « The Meaning of Faith » by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- A phantasm, in my opinion, is a phenomena that cannot be explained by any physical laws.
- Extract from : « Ghostly Phenomena » by Elliot O'Donnell.
- My first experience of this kind of phantasm occurred when I was a boy.
- Extract from : « Ghostly Phenomena » by Elliot O'Donnell.
- How still and clear is To, a phantasm with the semblance of permanence!
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 2 » by Various
- Should I bear apples if a phantasm seemed to come and plant me?
- Extract from : « Hypatia » by Charles Kingsley
- His presence fainted out into a phantasm, and that into nothing at all.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of a Midget » by Walter de la Mare
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