phantasma
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of phantasma
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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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
Next morning at breakfast, the inquisitor apologized for the disturbance, and said the boy's alarm proceeded from a phantasma animi,—phantom of the imagination.
From Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal by Richardson, Sarah J.
II.36 phantasma: a vision of things that are not.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
Serpents would too often glide across the table around which the gay company, himself a member, were assembled; or some other sudden and more appalling change scatter into fragments the bright phantasma of his dreams.
From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
The sound of this man's voice, so lusty, ringing, and healthful, served to scatter before it the phantasma that yet haunted Glyndon's memory.
From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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