phantasmal

phan·tasm  (fntzm)

n.

1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma.

2. An illusory mental image. Also called phantasma.

3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses.

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[Middle English fantasme, from Old French, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein, to make visible, from phantos, visible, from phainein, to show; see bh-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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phan·tasmal (fn-tzml), phan·tasmic (-tzmk) adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

phantasmal - resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, spectral, spiritual supernatural - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"

Translations

phantasmal

adj → imaginär