Synonyms of phantasm

phantasm

noun

variants also fantasm

1

as in illusion

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

frightened by the phantasms of his own making

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illusion
• dream
• vision
• phantasy
• delusion
• unreality
• chimera
• hallucination
• daydream
• fantasy
• idea
• nightmare
• figment
• imaging
• pipe dream
• nonentity
• mirage
• castle in the air
• conceit
• castle in Spain
• fancy
• fiction
• ignis fatuus
• concoction
• fabrication
• utopia
• invention
• visualization
• brainchild
• cloudland
• fable
• will-o'-the-wisp
• cloud-cuckoo-land
• envisaging
• daymare
• Shangri-la

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fact
• reality
• actuality

• fact
• reality
• actuality

2

as in apparition

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people

believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death

Synonyms & Similar Words

• apparition
• ghost
• phantom
• spectre
• haunt
• wraith
• spirit
• specter
• materialization
• bogy
• vision
• poltergeist
• visitant
• bogie
• sprite
• spook
• bogey
• shadow
• familiar spirit
• hant
• doppelganger
• shade
• angel
• djinn
• double
• daimon
• genie
• doppelgänger
• zombie
• familiar
• jinn
• ghoul
• incubus
• jinni
• fetch
• vampire
• demon
• succubus
• zombi
• djinni
• genius
• daemon
• manes
• shaitan
• imp
• lemures
• lamia
• cacodemon
• devil
• fiend

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