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Phantasm vs Revenant - What's the difference?

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Phantasm is a related term of revenant.


As nouns the difference between phantasm and revenant

is that phantasm is something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition while revenant is someone who returns from a long absence.

As an adjective revenant is

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phantasm

English

Alternative forms

* fantasm

Noun

(en noun)
  • something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
    • He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.

    Related terms

    * fancy * fantasize * fantastic * fantasy * phantom

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    revenant

    English

    (wikipedia revenant)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who returns from a long absence.
  • * 1886 , Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew'' viii, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
    • They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
  • * 1895 August 31, Daily News'' 4/7, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
    • The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
  • * 2008 , Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature , Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1, page 91:
    • From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him:
  • A person or thing reborn.
  • * 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 184:
    • Sometimes semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
  • A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
  • * {{quote-book, 1969, , edition=2008 ed. citation
    • , passage=Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1988 , (Salman Rushdie), (The Satanic Verses) , Random House (2008), page 134:
    • On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.
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