phantasm
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From Old French fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter, Late Latin also appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (“phantasma”), from φαντάζω (phantazō, “I make visible”).
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phantasm (plural phantasms)
- something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
- He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
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- phantasm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- phantasm in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- phantasm at OneLook Dictionary Search
