Synonyms:
apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow
Meaning: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
Synonyms:
apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
Meaning: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
Usage examples
But the phantasm itself is not a form of the possible intellect; it is the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasm that is a form.
Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the commonplace--some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.