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

The sudden presence of a raven at a bridal banquet could scarcely have been a greater phantasma.

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

Does the broken mirror within reflect back the countenance of real things, or shadows and shapes, crossed, mingled, and bewildered,—the phantasma of a sick man's dreams?

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Waken her, Burbon, and this loving charme, Which now hath led your sences prisoner, Will vanish, and her speach, full of reproofe, Beget a new phantasma all of hate.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

II.36 phantasma: a vision of things that are not.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton