Definitions for phantasm

phantasm phan·tasm

Spelling: [fan-taz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈfæn tæz əm/

Phantasm is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 262 anagrams from letters in phantasm (aahmnpst).

Definitions for phantasm

noun

  1. an apparition or specter.
  2. a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy.
  3. a mental image or representation of a real object.
  4. an illusory likeness of something.

Origin of phantasm

1175-1225; Latin phantasma Greek phántasma image, vision (akin to phantázein to bring before the mind); replacing Middle English fantesme Old French Latin as above

Examples for phantasm

Then no exaggeration was too absurd for him, no phantasm too unreal, no climax too extreme.

How still and clear is To, a phantasm with the semblance of permanence!

Perhaps this is true—the world a phantasm and our minds fooling us.

Should I bear apples if a phantasm seemed to come and plant me?

It may have been but a phantasm, born of her own fevered imagination.

Yet, that experience had the sharpness of fact; while this had only the vagueness of a phantasm.

My first experience of this kind of phantasm occurred when I was a boy.

It is a phantasm which has little or no connection with fact.

A phantasm, in my opinion, is a phenomena that cannot be explained by any physical laws.

His presence fainted out into a phantasm, and that into nothing at all.

Word Value for phantasm
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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