different between phantasm vs phantasma

English

Alternative forms

• fantasm
• phantasim (obsolete)
• phantasma

Etymology

A learned variant of phantom; from Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek ???????? (phántasma). Doublet of phantom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæntæz?m/
• Hyphenation: phan?tasm

Noun

phantasm (plural phantasms)

1. 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.

2. (philosophy) A impression as received by the senses, especially an image, often prior to any interpretation by the intellect.

   Synonym: (less common) phantasia

Derived terms

• phantasmal
• phantasmic

Related terms

• fancy
• fantasize
• fantastic
• fantasy
• phantasmatic
• phantom

Further reading

• phantasm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• phantasm in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• phantasm at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• panthams

English

Noun

phantasma (plural phantasmata)

1. Alternative form of phantasm
   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     ...till the 7. of Iune ?he againe deluded us, after two houres cha?e as a phanta?ma vani?hing towards Goa.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (phántasma)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /p?an?tas.ma/, [p?än??t?äs?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fan?tas.ma/, [f?n??t??zm?]

Noun

phantasma n (genitive phantasmatis); third declension

1. image, appearance
2. apparition, spectre, phantom

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

Portuguese

Noun

phantasma m or f (in variation) (plural phantasmas)

1. Obsolete spelling of fantasma (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).