phantasma
Americannoun
plural
phantasmataEtymology
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
The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him.
From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John
The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir
For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman
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
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