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Phantasm   /fˌæntˈæzəm/   Listen
Phantasm

noun
(Spelt also fantasm)
1.
A ghostly appearing figure.  Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre.
2.
Something existing in perception only.  Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow.






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"Phantasm" Quotes from Famous Books



... sound lungs. He further pointed out that the personality of Katie in appearance and character differed considerably from that of the medium, and that it was impossible to regard the materialized form as but a phantasm of the living. A stupendous discovery or a pitiful figment of a lunatic brain! But no flash of lightning rent the halls of learning; Sir William Crookes' researches into radiant matter could safely be ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby

... soul were subsistent, it would have some operation apart from the body. But it has no operation apart from the body, not even that of understanding: for the act of understanding does not take place without a phantasm, which cannot exist apart from the body. Therefore the human ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas



Words linked to "Phantasm" :   unidentified flying object, spectre, Flying Dutchman, shade, phantasma, illusion, disembodied spirit, spook, specter, phantom, wraith, spirit, semblance, flying saucer, ghost, UFO



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