![]() The Middle English word bifurcated into two phonetically distinct words in early Modern English, phantasm, which has mostly restored the form of the Latin etymon, and phantom entry 1, which more directly continues the Middle English original. Middle English fantesme, fantosme, fantome, fantom "what has only a seeming reality or value, vanity, illusion, apparition, falsehood," borrowed from Anglo-French fantosme, fantasme, fantesme, fantame (continental Old French fantosme), borrowed from Latin phantasma "ghost, apparition" (Late Latin also, "mental image, figment, illusion"), borrowed from Greek phántasma "apparition, ghost, vision, dream, (in plural) phenomena, portents," derivative, with the noun suffix -mat-, -ma, corresponding to phantázein "to make visible, present to the eye or mind, (middle voice) place before one's mind, picture to oneself, imagine" - more at fantasy entry 1 ![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'phantasm.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Ryan Ruby, The New York Review of Books, 8 Aug. 2020 Nor did this phantasm express itself solely in writing. 2021 That the nocturnal ritual fantasy is no fantasy, that every phantasm is a sign. Mclaughlin, CNN, The album, produced by pop artisan Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney), is a conceptual rumination on these apocalyptic times, from war to salvation with a sprinkle of biblical phantasm. Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2021 Southern lawmakers baselessly claimed Black men were lynched for raping White women - a phantasm that still haunts Black men - and asserted laws governing lynchings were best left to the states. Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, But eventually, the duo turned the phantasm into solid logic. ![]() 2020 There, like enormous catcher’s mitts, the detectors lie in wait for extremely rare collisions between one of these lumbering phantasms and an ordinary atom. 2023 The phantasm jeers at me in this lecture theatre. Recent Examples on the Web And sometimes the phantasms of artificial intelligence can prompt, in the prompter, genuine emotion.
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