FANTASMS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

phantasms

noun

variants also fantasms

plural of phantasm

as in illusions

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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as in apparitions

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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Noun

Presented Out of Competition at the 1967 edition of Venice, Deadly Sweet takes it cue from a brief encounter between a disenchanted man and a girl with no illusions in the wake of the murder of a nightclub owner in London.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 June 2026
Perhaps because of this aesthetic of illusions, the earnest state pride evident in some of the pavilions turns out to feel especially delightful.

— Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026

Definition of illusions

Noun

Today, the massive complex attracts paranormal investigators who report apparitions, voices, and other unexplained phenomena.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
Why then, when discussing body image after weight changes, is our culture reaching for the language of vexing apparitions and death?

— Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

Definition of apparitions

Noun

And for Rhaenyra, there are different visions of her premiership, one being something that looks a little like her father’s, that of the sort of moderate, kind of peaceful ruler.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 July 2026
Ahead of Independence Day, the two figureheads of America’s political parties offered competing visions for the nation’s future, each before symbols of the country’s past.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026

Definition of visions

Noun

It could be argued baseball isn't America's pastime any longer, yet there's something poetic and haunting in this beautiful film that explores the sport as well as ghosts of our past.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
The savory along the river is teeming with bees, and small white moths light among the ghosts of withered bergamot.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

Definition of ghosts

Noun

For this dourest of doubters, Musk’s claims for the feats ahead can only happen in the SpaceX founder’s head, or in the sci-fi fantasies Eisman grew up on.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026

Definition of fantasies

Noun

These new developments bring into fuller view some questions that could only linger in the shadows when Shannon and I spoke.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
In the long shadows of the Pacific Northwest, the Yanks were fortunate not to trail 5-1 at the half — and their lone goal came on a Malik Tillman free kick that deflected off a Belgian defender’s head into the net.

— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026

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