What does PHANTASM mean?
Definitions for PHANTASM
ˈfæn tæz əmphan·tasm
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word PHANTASM.
Princeton's WordNet
apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectrenoun
a ghostly appearing figure
"we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadownoun
something existing in perception only
"a ghostly apparition at midnight"
Wiktionary
phantasmnoun
something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Phantasm, Phantasmanoun
Vain and airy appearance; something appearing only to imagination.
Etymology: φάντασμα, φαντασία; phantasme, phantasie, Fr.
All the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. William Shakespeare.This armado is a Spaniard that keeps here in court
A phantasm, a monarcho, and one that makes sport
To the prince and his book-mates. William Shakespeare.They believe, and they believe amiss, because they be but phantasms or apparitions. Walter Raleigh, Hist. of the World.
If the great ones were in forwardness, the people were in fury, entertaining this airy body or phantasm with incredible affection; partly out of their great devotion to the house of York, partly out of proud humour. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.
Why,
In this infernal vale first met, thou call’st
Me father, and that phanta’m call’st my son. John Milton.Assaying, by his devilish art, to reach
The organs of her fancy, and with them forge
Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams. John Milton.
ChatGPT
phantasm
A phantasm is an illusion, apparition, or a figment of the imagination. It often refers to supernatural entities such as ghosts or specters, but can also refer to non-physical things that exist only in the mind.
Webster Dictionary
Phantasmnoun
an image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream
Phantasmnoun
a mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion
Etymology: [L. phantasma. See Phantom, and cf. Fantasm.]
Wikidata
Phantasm
Phantasm is a 1979 American horror film directed, written, photographed, co-produced, and edited by Don Coscarelli. It introduced the Tall Man, a supernatural and malevolent undertaker who turns the dead into dwarf zombies to do his bidding and take over the world.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Phantasm
fan′tazm, n. a vain, airy appearance: a fancied vision: an apparition or spectre—also Phantas′ma (Shak.):—pl. Phan′tasms, Phantas′mata.—adjs. Phantas′mal; Phantasmā′lian (rare).—n. Phantasmal′ity.—adv. Phantas′mally.—adjs. Phantasmat′ic, -al; Phantas′mic; Phantasmogenet′ic, begetting phantasms.—adv. Phantasmogenet′ically.—adj. Phantasmolog′ical, pertaining to phantasms as subjects of inquiry.—n. Phantasmol′ogy, the science of phantasms. [Gr. phantasma—phantazein, to make visible—phainein, to bring to light—pha-ein, to shine.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of PHANTASM in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of PHANTASM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of PHANTASM in a Sentence
Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz:
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
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