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noun
A phantasm (an impression received through the senses) or the faculty of receiving or representing these impressions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Something imaginary; a fantasy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Archaic spelling of fantasia.
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Usage: alt-of, archaic
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History
Borrowed from Latin phantasia (“fancy, fantasy; imagination”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ (phăntăsĭ́ā, “appearance, look; display, presentation; pageantry, pomp; impression, perception; image”), from φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (Phắntăsĭs) is derived from φᾰντᾰ́ζω (phăntắzō, “to make visible, show; to become visible, appear; to imagine”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to appear; to reveal; to shine”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bheh2- (“to shine”). The English word is a doublet of fancy, fantasia, fantasy, and phantasy.
