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   phantasm

   /ˈfantaz(ə)m/

   noun

   • 1. an illusion, apparition, or ghost: "the cart seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm"
   • ▪ an illusory likeness of something: "every phantasm of a hope was quickly nullified"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘deceptive appearance’): from Old French fantasme, via Latin from Greek phantasma, from phantazein ‘make visible’, from phainein ‘to show’. The change from f- to ph- in the 16th century was influenced by the Latin spelling.

   Derivatives

   • 1. phantasmal adjective
   • 2. phantasmic adjective

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • P

     3

   • H

     4

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

   • A

     1

   • S

     1

   • M

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