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Webster 1913 Edition
Phantasm
1.
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.
They be but
phantasms
or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh.
2.
A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion.
Cudworth.
Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no
phantasm
or expectation. Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Phantasm
PHAN'TASM
,Noun.
That which appears to the mind; the image of an external object; hence, an idea or notion. It usually denotes a vain or airy appearance; something imagined.
All the interim is
Like a phantasm or a hideous dream.
Definition 2024
phantasm
phantasm
English
Alternative forms
Noun
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: