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
II.36 phantasma: a vision of things that are not.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
Thou hast imprinted on our being, O God, such singular phantasma of inconsequence, and hast made to rise such strange phenomena.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
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
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.
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