Phantasm vs Vision - What's the difference?
phantasm | vision | Related terms |
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:
(label) The sense or ability of sight.
Something seen; an object perceived visually.
* 1610 , , I. ii. 270:
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=7, title= (label) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
(label) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
(label) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
(label) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
(label) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
Phantasm is a related term of vision.
As nouns the difference between phantasm and vision
is that phantasm is something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition while vision is ghost.phantasm
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Alternative forms
* fantasmNoun
(en noun)- 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.
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(wikipedia vision)Noun
- For to a vision so apparent rumour / Cannot be mute
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}
- (John Locke)