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phantasm

/fan-taz-uhm/US // ˈfæn tæz əm //UK // (ˈfæntæzəm) //

幻觉,幻象,幻影,幻境

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an apparition or specter.
    • : a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy.
    • : a mental image or representation of a real object.
    • : an illusory likeness of something.

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Examples

  • A phantasm is that which, not being a true counterpart of reality, is yet so like it as to be mistaken for reality.

  • His eyes stared wonderingly at the grotesque face like a lingering phantasm of fevered dreams.

  • Was all this nothing,—a dream, a splendid phantasm, to be rent away like a crimson cloud?

  • His desire to be with her was the desire to escape the phantasm of the woman haunting to subjugate him when they were separate.

  • At times faith grows faint, and I think it all a delusion—a phantasm—a dream.