phantasma
[fan-taz-muh]
noun, plural phan·tas·ma·ta [fan-taz-muh-tuh] /fænˈtæz mə tə/.
Origin of phantasma
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1590–1600
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Related Words for phantasma
impression, image, delusion, idea, fancy, imagination, chimera, incubus, specter, wraith, rainbow, trance, nightmare, fiction, bubble, illusion, reverie, figment, phantasm, speculationExamples from the Web for phantasma
Historical Examples of phantasma
They seemed like the Orama of the Greeks,—prophets while phantasma.
ZanoniEdward Bulwer Lytton
Claudius meanwhile pumped out the air-bubble of his soul, and thereafter, as a phantasma, ceased to be visible.
Wanderings in Corsica, Vol. 1 of 2Ferdinand Gregorovius
Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And 60 the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
Phantasma enim est sentiendi actus; neque differt a sensione, aliter quam fieri differt a factum esse.
The idea or phantasma, as he terms it, is the very perception or actus sentiendi.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper