phantasm

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David Hume, the 18th Century philosopher, described it as “the phantasm of the senses.”

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

A hellish phantasm of a doe-human hybrid that will definitely stalk and kill you in a dream tonight?

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2019

“It’s like a gargoyle with weird green eyes that pulls on my hair or nibbles my ear”—he jerked his head away and smiled reprovingly at the phantasm.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

The equine phantasm holds a sword in one hand while he dangles what looks like a lobster over the face of the sleeping man.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2017

This position in the orchestra, but putative, conceived as a feint to draw me away from my fellows so that rogues might throw me in chains—this phantasm might now be conjured to solidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson