phantasm
/ˈfæntæzəm/
noun
- A ghost or spirit; an apparition.
- In the old tale, a phantasm appeared to the knight in the haunted castle.
- The movie was full of eerie phantasms that frightened the audience.
- She thought she saw a phantasm in the fog, but it was just a tree branch.
- Something that exists only in the imagination; an illusion or fantasy.
- She realized her perfect memory of the vacation was a phantasm, not the real event.
- His dream of becoming a rock star turned out to be a phantasm.
- The promise of easy money was just a phantasm that led them into debt.
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