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something existing in perception only; a ghostly appearing figure

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Usage examples (13)
  • And it was not just a fantasm, not just a crotchet.
  • I frowned, trying to picture such a fantasm as an abandoned building in TunFaire.
  • If I tried to cast off my burden on this fantasm, that it might find rest there, it sank through the vacuum and came rushing down again upon me.
  • This I knew, but I was neither willing nor able to do; especially since, in my thoughts of thee, thou wast not thyself but only an empty fantasm.
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