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Phantasm
//ˈfæntæzəm// noun
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Noun
- 1 Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
"But night comes in with a more genial spirit: we have done our worst and our bitterest; and we need a small space to indulge any little bit of cordiality that may be left in us. A thousand gay phantasms float in on the sunny south, which has left the far-off vineyards of its birth."
- 2 something existing in perception only wordnet
- 3 An impression as received by the senses, especially an image, often prior to any interpretation by the intellect.
"When abstracted from the phantasm by the intellectus agens the species effects a modification in the intellectus possibilis which modification is called the species intelligibilis impressa. Actualized by the species impressa the intellectus […]"
- 4 a ghostly appearing figure wordnet
Etymology
A learned variant of phantom; from Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma). Doublet of phantom.
See also for "phantasm"
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