All phantasm synonyms
phanΒ·tasm
P p noun phantasm
- bogeyman β 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.
- delusion β A delusion is a false idea.
- big eyes β 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.
- boogieman β bogeyman.
- misbelief β erroneous belief; false opinion.
- banshee β 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.
- ghost β the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- apparition β An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- misimpression β a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.
- bogle β a scarecrow
- mirage β an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- daemon β a demigod
- haunter β to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- fancy β imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- daydream β A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
- bogyman β boogeyman
- idolism β idolatry.
- image β a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- envisagement β The act of envisaging.
- eidolon β An idealized person or thing.
- woolgathering β indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- hocuspocus β Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
- manes β the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- zombie β the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose. the supernatural force itself.
- intellection β the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.
- ideality β ideal quality or character.
- hallucination β a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- illusion β something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- ignis fatuus β Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- boogeyman β a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- in sight β an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
- nightmare β a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
- kelpie β Australian kelpie.
- fata morgana β Meteorology. a mirage consisting of multiple images, as of cliffs and buildings, that are distorted and magnified to resemble elaborate castles, often seen near the Straits of Messina.
- castles in the air β plural of castle in the air.
- deceptiveness β apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- bogey β A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
adj phantasm
- blue-sky β of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
- blue sky β fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- hallucinatory β pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.