Synonyms for phantasm
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Noun
1. Apparition
apparition, spectre UK, specter US, shadow, illusion, chimera, hallucination, delusion, dream, spirit, vision, fantasy, imagination, sprite, appearance, imagery, fantasm, wraith, spook
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Definitions
- n. 1
Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
Related words
- Word family
- phantasmal phantasmic phantasmatic phantom
- Other spellings
- phantasma
Forms
- Plural
- phantasms → apparitions, spectres, shadows, illusions…
Example sentences
- shadow There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
- illusion This created an illusion that was hard to explain.
- spectre A spectre haunts Europe: the spectre of communism.
- apparition Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| phantasm | rising | |
| shadow | rising | |
| illusion | rising | |
| spectre | steady | |
| apparition | rising | |
| phantasia | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- dream1, spook1
- 6 letters
- spirit2, vision2, shadow2, sprite1, wraith
- 7 letters
- fantasy3, imagery3, spectre2, specter2, chimera3, fantasm
- 8 letters
- illusion3, delusion3
- 9 letters
- phantasia
- 10 letters
- appearance3, apparition4
- 11 letters
- imagination5
- 13 letters
- hallucination5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (spirit2 = 2 syllables).