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phantasm
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PHANTASM
1
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality <frightened by the phantasms of his own making>
Synonyms chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision
Related Words ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp; brainchild, idea; concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualization; cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia; daymare, nightmare
2
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people <believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death>
Variants of PHANTASM
phantasm also fantasm
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