Spectre vs Phantasm - What's the difference?
spectre | phantasm | Related terms |
* Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
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:
As nouns the difference between spectre and phantasm
is that spectre is an alternative spelling of lang=en while phantasm is something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.spectre
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Noun
(en noun)- The spectre is a ghost of a decapitated young man.
- To this extenuated spectre , perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
Anagrams
* ----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.
