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- [fan-taz-uh m]
- /ˈfæn tæz əm/
- /ˈfæn.tæz.əm/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [fan-taz-uh m]
- /ˈfæn tæz əm/
Definitions of phantasm word
- noun phantasm an apparition or specter. 1
- noun phantasm a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy. 1
- noun phantasm a mental image or representation of a real object. 1
- noun phantasm an illusory likeness of something. 1
- noun phantasm ghostly apparition 1
- noun phantasm a phantom 0
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Origin of phantasm
First appearance:
before 1175 One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; < Latin phantasma < Greek phántasma image, vision (akin to phantázein to bring before the mind); replacing Middle English fantesme < Old French < Latin as above
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Parts of speech for Phantasm
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
phantasm popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 70% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
phantasm usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for phantasm
noun phantasm
- apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- banshee — In Irish folk stories, a banshee is a female spirit who warns you by her long, sad cry that someone in your family is going to die.
- big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
- bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
adj phantasm
- blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- blue-sky — of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
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