phantasma

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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018

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

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Fourthly, speculations about phantasma, assumptio naturæ humanæ, transmutatio, mixtura, duæ naturæ, etc., were necessarily associated with these notions.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

Thoughts of painful, almost chaotic bewilderment indeed, so chased each other across his mind as to render the scene around him indistinct, the many faces and eager voices like the phantasma of a dream.

From The Vale of Cedars by Aguilar, Grace