| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | phan·tasm |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f n tz  m |
| NOUN: | 1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma. 2. An illusory mental image. Also called phantasma. 3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English fantasme, from Old French, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein, to make visible, from phantos, visible, from phainein, to show. See bh -1 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | phan·tasmal (fn-tzml) , phan·tasmic (-tzm k) —ADJECTIVE
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