phantasm | | |
n. (person) | 1. apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre | a ghostly appearing figure.; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" |
| ~ disembodied spirit, spirit | any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings. |
| ~ flying dutchman | the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day. |
n. (cognition) | 2. apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow | something existing in perception only.; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" |
| ~ 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, specter, wraith, spectre, spook, shade | a mental representation of some haunting experience.; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" |
| ~ illusion, semblance | an erroneous mental representation. |
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