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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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