Word Meanings - PHANTASM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: PHANTASM

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PHANTASM)

• Illusion
• Dream
• mockery
• deception
• delusion
• hallucination
• phantasm
• vision
• myth
• false show
• error
• fallacy

Related words: (words related to PHANTASM)

• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• PHANTASM
  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
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• ILLUSIONIST
  One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
• VISION
  The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That
• VISIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being visionary.
• ILLUSION
  A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination,
• PHANTASMAGORY
  See PHANTASMAGORIA
• VISIONLESS
  Destitute of vision; sightless.
• PHANTASMAGORIC
  Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.
• DECEPTION
  1. The act of deceiving or misleading. South. 2. The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South. 3. That which deceives or is intended to
• PHANTASMAL
  Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.
• FALSE
  Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• DISILLUSION
  The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• INVISION
  Want of vision or of the power of seeing. Sir T. Browne.