Nightmare vs Phantasy - What's the difference?
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A female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
*1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Black Cat’:
*:I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart!
A very bad or frightening dream.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
(figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
* H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth :
(psychology) The innate mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
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As nouns the difference between nightmare and phantasy
is that nightmare is a female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep while phantasy is .nightmare
English
(wikipedia nightmare)Noun
(en noun)- It haunted me, however, more than once, like the nightmare .
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares , capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
- Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
Synonyms
* (demon said to torment sleepers) incubus (male demon afflicting female sleeper), succubus * (bad dream) night terror (sleep disorder)phantasy
English
Noun
(phantasies)- … what man has hitherto known only in febrile phantasy and tenuous legend?