Vision vs Phantom - What's the difference?
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(label) The sense or ability of sight.
Something seen; an object perceived visually.
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*{{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.
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.
Illusive.
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, 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.
Vision is a related term of phantom.
As a noun vision
is ghost.As a proper noun phantom is
nickname of the f-4b jet fighter flown by marines in vietnam.vision
English
(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)