fantasm

Thân thiện

A child's fantasm appears as a friendly, glowing figure in the bedroom.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A phantom; an apparition; a ghostly figure: A fantasm is something that appears to the senses, especially sight, but has no physical reality. It is often a spectral or ghostly image.
   • An illusion; a product of fantasy or imagination: A fantasm can also refer to a mental image or creation that is not real, existing only in the mind.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The old legend spoke of a dark fantasm that haunted the castle walls.
  • In his feverish state, he was tormented by terrifying fantasms.
  • The artist's work was not a depiction of reality, but a fantasm from his own subconscious.

Advanced Usage

• "A mere fantasm": Used to emphasize that something is completely unreal or illusory.
  • His fears were based on a mere fantasm, not on any real threat.

Variants and Related Words

• Phantasm (n): The more common spelling variant of "fantasm," with identical meaning.
• Fantastical (adj): Having a strange, unreal, or magical quality.
  • The story was set in a fantastical world.
• Phantasmagoria (n): A sequence of real or imaginary images, like those seen in a dream.
  • The film was a phantasmagoria of colors and shapes.

Synonyms

• Apparition: A ghostly figure; a sudden or unusual sight.
• Illusion: A false idea or belief; something that deceives the senses.
• Specter: A ghost; a visible but incorporeal spirit.
• Vision: Something seen in a dream, trance, or supernatural experience.

Related Phrases

• Figment of the imagination: Something created by the mind that is not real.
  • The monster was just a figment of the child's imagination.

Học thuật

Noun

1. something existing in perception only
   • a ghostly apparition at midnight
2. a ghostly appearing figure
   • we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us

Từ đồng nghĩa

• apparition
• phantom
• phantasm
• phantasma
• shadow
• specter
• spectre