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121phantasm — n 1. apparition, vision, specter, shade, shadow, spirit, soul, revenant, wraith, eidolon, phan tasma, materialization; ghost, phantom, (in Irish Folklore) banshee, Inf. spook; demon, devil, evil spirit, nightmare, incubus, succubus. 2. chimera,… …
122phantom — n 1. incubus, succubus, evil spirit, nightmare, bad dream, Sl. bad trip; chimera, figment, figment of the imagination, trick of the imagination, phantom of the mind, illusion, delusion. See also phantasm(def. 2). 2. apparition, specter, shade,… …
123vision — n 1. sight, eyesight; perception, perspicacity, penetration, discernment, insight. 2. dream, Sl. trip, chimera, figment, figment of the imagination, illusion, delusion; mirage, hallucination, Fata Morgana, optical illusion, trick of the eyesight …
124phantom — [n] ghost; figment of the imagination apparition, chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, eidolon, figment, hallucination, haunt, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, nightmare, phantasm, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, spook, vision, wraith;… …
125effigy — [16] Effigy comes ultimately from the Latin verb effingere ‘form, portray’. This was a compound formed from the prefix ex ‘out’ and fingere ‘make, shape’ (source of English faint, feign, fiction, figment, and related to English dairy and dough).… …
126fiction — [14] Fiction is literally ‘something made or invented’ – and indeed that was the original meaning of the word in English. It seems always to have been used in the sense ‘story or set of “facts” invented’ rather than of some concrete invention,… …
127figure — [13] Figure comes via Old French from Latin figūra ‘form, shape, figure’, a derivative of the same base (*fig ) as produced fingere ‘make, shape’ (whence English effigy, faint, feign, and fiction). Many of the technical Latin uses of the word,… …
128fig·ment — /ˈfıgmənt/ noun, pl ments [count] : something produced by the imagination : something that does not really exist usually used in the phrase figment of your imagination I thought I heard her voice, but I guess it was just a figment of my… …
