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also fantasm
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1
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
- frightened by the phantasms of his own making
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2
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
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The first known use of phantasm was in the 13th century
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