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phan·tas·ma (făn-tăźmə)

[Ultimately from Greek phantasma; see phantasm.]

noun: pl., -ma·ta (-mə-tə) 

See phantasm
phan·tasm (făńtăźəm)

[Middle English fantasme, from Old French, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein, to make visible, from phantos, visible, from phainein, to show.]

noun 

  1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma
  2. An illusory mental image. Also called phantasma
  3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses.

derivatives

phan·taśmal
adjective