phantasmal

phantasmal
phantasmality, n.phantasmally, phantasmically, phantasmatically, adv.
/fan taz"meuhl/, adj.
pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
Also, phantasmic, phantasmical, phantasmatic /fan'taz mat"ik/, phantasmatical.
[1805-15; PHANTASM + -AL1]

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