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Definitions: PHANTASM |
PHANTASMNoun1. A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. 2. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. |
Date "PHANTASM" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
Etymology: Phantasm \Phan"tasm\, noun. [Latin expression phantasma. See Phantom, and compare to Fantasm.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Visual hallucination or illusion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PHANTASM |
| English words defined with "PHANTASM": Fantasm ♦ Phantasma. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PHANTASM": Phantasmagoria, Phantasmatography. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) Phantasm II (1988) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Buddha | This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "PHANTASM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHANTASM" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
phantasm | 122 |
batman mask of the phantasm | 20 |
mask of the phantasm | 8 |
5 phantasm | 7 |
phantasm movie | 6 |
cuda phantasm | 4 |
motorsports phantasm | 4 |
phantasm 2 | 4 |
phantasm series | 3 |
batman mask phantasm picture | 3 |
phantasm wallpaper | 2 |
ii iii phantasm | 2 |
phantasm picture | 2 |
phantasm ii | 2 |
phantasm 3 | 2 |
motorsport phantasm | 2 |
2 dvd phantasm | 2 |
end phantasm | 2 |
man phantasm tall | 2 |
batman phantasm | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PHANTASM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hije (apparition, background, cloud, color, colour, dark, ghost, loom, phantom, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, shadow, spirit, spook, umbra, wraith), fantazmë (apparition, eidolon, ghost, haunt, phantom, spectre, spirit, wraith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عبادة قضيب الرجل, عبادة آلة الرجل, التوهم (imagination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фантазма, видение (vision, wraith), привидение (boggard, eidolon, fetch, ghost, phantom, shade, shape, spectre, vision, visitant), призрак (appearance, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spirit, spook, vision, wraith), илюзия (deception, delusion, dream, fantasy, glamor, glamour, illusion, maya, phantasy, phantom, vapor, vapour), дух (fetch, ghost, mettle, mind, morale, pecker, presence, shade, soul, spirit, spook, tone, visitant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přelud (ghost, phantom), přízrak (apparition, chimera, double, ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit, vision, wraith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fantasme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Phantom (dummy, ghost, manikin, phantom), Phantasma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φάσμα (range, specter, spectre, spectrum, vision, wraith), φάντασμα (apparition, bogey, bogy, genie, ghost, gnome, hobgoblin, phantom, pixy, specter, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | káprázat (dazzle, delusion, fantasy, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | illusione (delusion, illusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ashlins (apparition, second sight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antasmphay quimera (chimera, unreality, vapor, vapour), ilusão (delusion, error detection, fallal, idolater, illusion, lie, maybe, semblance, unreality), fantasma (apparition, Bogle, bugaboo, bugbear, eight, ghost, golliwog, haunt, hob, leprosarium, phantom, shadow, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), fanerogâmica, espectro (Bogle, eidolon, ghost, phantom, spectre, spectrum, spirit, spook, wraith), aparição (apparition, ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit, spook). (various references) iluzie opticã, fantomã (apparition, Bogle, chimera, fetch, ghost, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith, zombie), fantasmã (phantom). (various references) фантом (eidolon, phantasm 2, phantom). (various references) priviđenje (apparition), opsena (illusion), fantazma. (various references) ilusión (a flight of fancy, deception, delusion, dream, eagerness, hallucination, hope, illusion, mare's nest), fantasma (bogey, bogie, ghost, hallucination, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith). (various references) vålnad (ghost, phantom, wraith), skepnad (figure, likeness, phantom, semblance, shape), skenbild (simulacrum), fantasma, drömbild. (various references) tayf (phantom, spectrum), siluet (phantom, shade, shadow, silhouette), hayali görüntü (phantom), hayalet (apparition, ghost, phantom, shade, shades, shadow, specter, spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references) ілюзія (deception, delusion, illusion, mare's nest, phantom, phasm), фантом (phantom). (various references) hồn hiện ảo ảnh, bóng ma, ảo tưởng (chimerical, fallacy, ignis fatuus, visional), ảo tượng. (various references) lledrith (illusion, magic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phantasma. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | phantasma. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PHANTASM": phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantasmagorias, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, phantasmal, phantasmata, phantasmic, phantasms. (additional references) | |
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"PHANTASM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phantasma, phantasmata, Phantasmic, phantasn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PHANTASM" (pronounced fa'nta"zum) |
| 4 | -a" z u m | chasm, spasm. |
| 3 | -z u m | abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, bosom, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, careerism, catechism, centralism, chauvinism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, cytoplasm, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, enthusiasm, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, iconoclasm, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, ism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microcosm, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, neoplasm, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, orgasm, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, prism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, sarcasm, satanism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-m-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: tampans. | |
-2 letters: ashman, asthma, atmans, manats, mantas, matsah, sampan, shaman, tampan. | |
-3 letters: amahs, antas, ataps, atman, atmas, hansa, hants, manas, manat, manta, maths, pants, pasha, pasta, paths, snath, stamp, staph, tamps, tapas. | |
-4 letters: aahs, amah, amas, amps, anas, ansa, anta, ants, atap, atma, hams, hant, haps, hasp, hast, hats, mana, mans, maps, mash, mast. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-m-n-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: phantasma, phantasms. | |
+2 letters: phantasmal, phantasmic. | |
+3 letters: phantasmata. | |
+4 letters: amphetamines, watermanship. | |
+5 letters: analphabetism, craftsmanship, draftsmanship, grantsmanship, magnetographs, mastigophoran, metaphysician, parathormones, statesmanship, watermanships. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 41 4E 54 41 53 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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