phantasma

[ fan-taz-muh ]

noun

, plural phan·tas·ma·ta [fan-, taz, -m, uh, -t, uh].

1. phantasm ( defs 1, 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of phantasma¹

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1590–1600

Example Sentences

And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times

Thou hast imprinted on our being, O God, such singular phantasma of inconsequence, and hast made to rise such strange phenomena.

From Project Gutenberg

Serpents would too often glide across the table around which the gay company, himself a member, were assembled; or some other sudden and more appalling change scatter into fragments the bright phantasma of his dreams.

From Project Gutenberg

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.”

From Project Gutenberg

Marcion, for example, regarded the body of Christ merely as an “umbra,” a “phantasma.”

From Project Gutenberg