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PHANTASMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phantasma mean? 

PHANTASMA (noun)
  The noun PHANTASMA has 2 senses:

1. a ghostly appearing figureplay

2. something existing in perception onlyplay

  Familiarity information: PHANTASMA used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHANTASMA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A ghostly appearing figure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; specter; spectre

Context example:

we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us

Hypernyms ("phantasma" is a kind of...):

disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasma"):

Flying Dutchman (the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day)

Derivation:

phantasmal (resembling or characteristic of a phantom)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Something existing in perception only

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; shadow

Context example:

a ghostly apparition at midnight

Hypernyms ("phantasma" is a kind of...):

illusion; semblance (an erroneous mental representation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasma"):

flying saucer; UFO; unidentified flying object (an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins)

Flying Dutchman (a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope)

ghost; shade; specter; spectre; spook; wraith (a mental representation of some haunting experience)

Derivation:

phantasmal (resembling or characteristic of a phantom)


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