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Phantasma synonyms
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apparition
A ghostly figure; a specter.
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  1. A ghostly figure; a specter.
  2. Anything that appears unexpectedly or in an extraordinary way
  3. A phantom or ghost
bogey
(Sports) A golf score of one stroke over par.
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  1. (Sports) A golf score of one stroke over par.
  2. (--- Chiefly British) The number of strokes that a good player is likely to need to finish a golf hole or course.
  3. An evil or mischievous spirit; a hobgoblin.
bogle
A hobgoblin; a bogey.
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  1. A hobgoblin; a bogey.
  2. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
  3. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
eidolon
An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
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  1. An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
  2. An image without real existence; phantom; apparition
  3. A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
ghost
A slight or faint trace:
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  1. A slight or faint trace:
  2. (Folklore) A dead person's disembodied spirit, esp. when thought of as appearing to the living as a pale, shadowy apparition
  3. The spirit or soul
phantasm
A perception of something that has no physical reality; figment of the mind; esp., a specter, or ghost
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  1. A perception of something that has no physical reality; figment of the mind; esp., a specter, or ghost
  2. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition.
  3. (Philos.) A mental impression of a real person or thing
phantom
Any mental image or representation
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  1. Any mental image or representation
  2. A person or thing that is something in appearance but not in fact
  3. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition.
revenant
A person who returns, as after a long absence
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  1. A person who returns, as after a long absence
  2. One who returns after death.
  3. Ghost
shade
(Archaic) A shadow
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  1. (Archaic) A shadow
  2. (Chiefly Literary) A ghost; specter
  3. A disembodied spirit; a ghost.
shadow
A nearby or adjoining region; vicinity:
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  1. A nearby or adjoining region; vicinity:
  2. Shelter; protection:
  3. A phantom; a ghost.
specter
A ghostly apparition; a phantom.
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  1. A ghostly apparition; a phantom.
  2. Any object of fear or dread
  3. A ghost; apparition
spirit
The Holy Spirit.
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  1. The Holy Spirit.
  2. An attitude marked by enthusiasm, energy, or courage:
  3. Strong loyalty or dedication:
visitant
A visitor, esp. one from a strange or foreign place
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  1. A visitor, esp. one from a strange or foreign place
  2. (Ornithology) A migratory bird in any of its temporary resting places
  3. A supernatural visitor; ghost, phantom, etc.
wraith
The spectral figure of a person supposedly seen as a premonition just before that person's death
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  1. The spectral figure of a person supposedly seen as a premonition just before that person's death
  2. The ghost of a dead person.
  3. A ghost
spook
(Slang) A spy or secret agent
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  1. (Slang) A spy or secret agent
  2. (Informal) A ghost; a specter.
haunt
A place often visited
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  1. A place often visited
  2. A place much frequented.
  3. (Chiefly Southern US) A ghost or other supernatural being.
daydream
A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
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  1. A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
  2. A pleasant, dreamlike thinking or wishing; reverie
  3. A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.
dream
A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
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  1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
  2. (Informal) One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful:
  3. A wild fancy or unrealistic hope:
fancy
The mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature.
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  1. The mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature.
  2. The enthusiasts or fans of a sport or pursuit considered as a group.
  3. (Rare) Critical taste or judgment in art, dress, etc.
fantasy
An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need.
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  1. An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need.
  2. (Music) A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency.
  3. A genre of fiction or other artistic work characterized by fanciful or supernatural elements.
fiction
The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
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  1. The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
  2. Something accepted as fact for the sake of convenience, although not necessarily true
  3. Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated:
figment
Something invented, made up, or fabricated:
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  1. Something invented, made up, or fabricated:
illusion
A fine transparent net fabric, used for dresses or trimmings.
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  1. A fine transparent net fabric, used for dresses or trimmings.
  2. Something that is erroneously perceived or construed:
  3. A trick, as one designed or performed by a stage magician, appearing to defy ordinary physical laws
phantasm
A perception of something that has no physical reality; figment of the mind; esp., a specter, or ghost
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  1. A perception of something that has no physical reality; figment of the mind; esp., a specter, or ghost
  2. (Philos.) A mental impression of a real person or thing
  3. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition.
reverie
A dreamy, fanciful, or visionary notion or daydream
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  1. A dreamy, fanciful, or visionary notion or daydream
  2. Dreamy thinking or imagining, esp. of agreeable things; fanciful musing; daydreaming
  3. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
vision
The mystical experience of seeing something that is not in fact present to the eye or is supernatural.
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  1. The mystical experience of seeing something that is not in fact present to the eye or is supernatural.
  2. Unusual competence in discernment or perception; intelligent foresight:
  3. The faculty of sight; eyesight:
delusion
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
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  1. A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
  2. A false belief or perception strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness, as in schizophrenia.
  3. (Psychiatry) A false, persistent belief maintained in spite of evidence to the contrary
hallucination
A false or mistaken idea.
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  1. A false or mistaken idea.
  2. The apparent perception of sights, sounds, etc. that are not actually present: it may occur in certain mental disorders
  3. Perception of visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory experiences without an external stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug.
ignis fatuus
A deceptive hope, goal, or influence; delusion
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  1. A deceptive hope, goal, or influence; delusion
  2. A light seen at night moving over swamps or marshy places, believed to be caused by the combustion of gases arising from decaying organic matter
  3. Something that misleads or deludes; an illusion.
illusion
An erroneous perception of reality:
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  1. An erroneous perception of reality:
  2. Something that is erroneously perceived or construed:
  3. The misleading image resulting in such a false impression
mirage
Something that falsely appears to be real
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  1. Something that falsely appears to be real
  2. An image formed under certain atmospheric conditions, in which objects appear to be reflected or displaced or in which nonexistent objects seem to appear. For example, the difference in the index of refraction between a low layer of very hot air and a higher level of cold air can cause light rays, travelling down from an object (such as the sky or a cloud) and passing through ever warmer air, to be refracted back up again. An observer viewing these light rays perceives them coming up off the ground, and thus sees the inverted image of the object, which appears lower than the object really is. In this way the sky itself can be reflected, resulting in the mirage of a distant lake.
  3. (Figuratively) An illusion.
phantasm
A perception of something that has no physical reality; figment of the mind; esp., a specter, or ghost
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  1. A perception of something that has no physical reality; figment of the mind; esp., a specter, or ghost
  2. (Philos.) A mental impression of a real person or thing
  3. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition.
will-o'-the-wisp
Alternative spelling of will o' the wisp.
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  1. Alternative spelling of will o' the wisp.
  2. (Idiomatic, British folklore) A strange light that attracts travellers from pathways into dangerous marshes or graveyards.
  3. Any hope or goal that leads one on but is impossible to reach
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    • 5) he says that the universal existence of sensation in matter cannot be disproved, though he shows that when there are no organic arrangements the mental side of the movement (phantasma) is evanescent.

    • § 23 "Apostolis adhuc in saeculo superstitibus, adhuc apud Judaeam Christi sanguine recenti, phantasma Domini corpus asserebatur").

    • In the sequel, the Phantom is running a new attraction called Phantasma on Coney Island under the name of Mr. Y.

    • He is running Phantasma with the help of the Girys, with Madame Giry forcing Meg into prostitution to pay the bills.

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