phantasma

Synonyms for phantasma

noun dream

noun. ghost

noun. ghost

noun. illusion

1590s, from Latin phantasma (see phantasm).

They seemed like the Orama of the Greeks,—prophets while phantasma.

Claudius meanwhile pumped out the air-bubble of his soul, and thereafter, as a phantasma, ceased to be visible.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And 60 the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

Phantasma enim est sentiendi actus; neque differt a sensione, aliter quam fieri differt a factum esse.

The idea or phantasma, as he terms it, is the very perception or actus sentiendi.

Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.

Shakespeare seems to use it ('phantasma') in this passage in the sense of nightmare, which it bears in Italian.