Hypertext Webster Gateway: "phantasm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Phantasm \Phan"tasm\, n. [L. phantasma. See {Phantom}, and cf.
{Fantasm}.] [Spelt also {fantasm}.]
1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or
material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an
optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.
They be but phantasms or apparitions. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. A mental image or representation of a real object; a
fancy; a notion. --Cudworth.
Figures or little features, of which the description
had produced in you no phantasm or expectation.
--Jer. Taylor.
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