phantasma
Americannoun
plural
phantasmataEtymology
Origin of phantasma
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1590–1600
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018
Fourthly, speculations about phantasma, assumptio naturæ humanæ, transmutatio, mixtura, duæ naturæ, etc., were necessarily associated with these notions.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
Marks of some outward impression were yet visible on her hand, whether from causes less occult than the moving phantasma of the mind, is a question that would resist all our powers of solution.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
The sudden presence of a raven at a bridal banquet could scarcely have been a greater phantasma.
From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John
The body of Christ was regarded by Marcion merely as an "umbra", a "phantasma."
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
