Fictitious vs Phantom - What's the difference?
fictitious | phantom |
Not real; invented; contrived.
Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.
An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
Illusive.
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Fictitious or nonexistent.
As adjectives the difference between fictitious and phantom
is that fictitious is not real; invented; contrived while phantom is illusive.As a noun phantom is
something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.fictitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.
