Phantasm
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Origin
From Old French fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phantasma, "phantasm"), from φαντάζω (phantazÅ, "I make visible").
Full definition of phantasm
Noun
phantasm
(plural phantasms)- something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.