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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein 'to present to the mind'

phantasm

 noun
     
phan‧tas‧m [uncountable and countable]
literary something that exists only in your imagination [= illusion]
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