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    PHANTASMA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Something existing in perception onlyplay

    Example:

    a ghostly apparition at midnight

    Synonyms:

    apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; shadow

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("phantasma" is a kind of...):

    illusion; semblance (an erroneous mental representation)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasma"):

    flying saucer; UFO; unidentified flying object (an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins)

    Flying Dutchman (a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope)

    ghost; shade; specter; spectre; spook; wraith (a mental representation of some haunting experience)

    Derivation:

    phantasmal (resembling or characteristic of a phantom)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A ghostly appearing figureplay

    Example:

    we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us

    Synonyms:

    apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; specter; spectre

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("phantasma" is a kind of...):

    disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasma"):

    Flying Dutchman (the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day)

    Derivation:

    phantasmal (resembling or characteristic of a phantom)

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