phantasm
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David Hume, the 18th Century philosopher, described it as “the phantasm of the senses.”
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024
Martin Riker’s novel “The Guest Lecture” begins when a faltering academic conjures up an imaginary phantasm of the early-20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023
A hellish phantasm of a doe-human hybrid that will definitely stalk and kill you in a dream tonight?
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2019
“It’s like a gargoyle with weird green eyes that pulls on my hair or nibbles my ear”—he jerked his head away and smiled reprovingly at the phantasm.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019
This position in the orchestra, but putative, conceived as a feint to draw me away from my fellows so that rogues might throw me in chains—this phantasm might now be conjured to solidity.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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