Phantasm vs Spook - What's the difference?
phantasm | spook |
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:
A spirit returning to haunt a place.
A ghost or an apparition.
A hobgoblin.
(espionage) A spy.
* 2009 , "Spies like them", BBC News Magazine (online), 24 July 2009:
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 13th 2012,
A scare or fright.
(dated, pejorative) A black person.
To scare or frighten.
To startle or frighten an animal
As nouns the difference between phantasm and spook
is that phantasm is something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition while spook is a spirit returning to haunt a place.As a verb spook is
to scare or frighten.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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Noun
(en noun)- The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
- The building was haunted by a couple of spooks .
- From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?
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- The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks .
- The big spider gave me a spook .
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.