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Manifestation vs Phantom - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between manifestation and phantom

is that manifestation is the act or process of becoming manifest while phantom is something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.

As an adjective phantom is

illusive.

As a proper noun Phantom is

nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by Marines in Vietnam.

manifestation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of becoming manifest.
  • The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.
  • The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.
  • This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.
  • (medical) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
  • A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking in to it.
  • phantom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fantom (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * ghost * See also

    Derived terms

    * phantom limb * phantom pain

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Illusive.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
  • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
  • Fictitious or nonexistent.
  • Anagrams

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