phantasma

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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018

And yet for very sorriness I cannot own the weird phantasma real!

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Does the broken mirror within reflect back the countenance of real things, or shadows and shapes, crossed, mingled, and bewildered,—the phantasma of a sick man's dreams?

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

With eyes tight closed one may conjure up the phantasma of green leaves waving and of meadows knee-deep with lush grasses and starred with ox-eyes.

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel