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Phantasma vs Phantom - What's the difference?

phantasma | phantom |

As nouns the difference between phantasma and phantom

is that phantasma is alternative form of lang=en 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.

phantasma

English

Noun

(phantasmata)
  • * 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
  • *:...till the 7. of Iune ?he againe deluded us, after two houres cha?e as a phanta?ma vani?hing towards Goa.
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    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.

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