phantasm

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

phan·tasm f50 [phantasm phantasms] BrE [ˈfæntæzəm] NAmE [ˈfæntæzəm] noun (formal)
a thing seen in the imagination
Syn: ↑illusion

Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘deceptive appearance’): from Old French fantasme, via Latin from Greek phantasma, from phantazein ‘make visible’, from phainein ‘to show’. The change from f- to ph- in the 16th cent. was influenced by the Latin spelling.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  apparition, phantom, phantasma, fantasm, shadow, specter, spectre