phantasmic
- adjective
- /fænˈtæzmɪk/
- Literature
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fantasmico
- The film's phantasmic visuals made the audience question what was real and what was simply an illusion.
Examples
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But his paintings were dark, full of monsters and phantasmic demons.
Fiction book (2001) -
The images of the fantasia acquire a phantasmic, dreamlike "life of their own," severed from the immobilized control of the artist.
Academic text (2002) -
Coriolanus too suffers a phantasmic identification with the body of rumor.
Academic text (1994) -
For this reason, the assault on the phantasmic status of the trauma has amounted to an assault on the status of the field of psychoanalysis itself.
Academic text (1997) -
At stake is the consciousness of art as a simulating surface, a phantasmic veil of illusory life and presence that seeks to displace historical and physical reality rather than merely represent it.
Academic text (2002) -
The enlivened corpse, like the mask, like the artist's anatomically based inventions of the figure, is a phantasmic simulacrum of truly divine creation; all of them are parodies of authentic life.
Academic text (2002) -
The landscape looked phantasmic under the shimmering moonlight, creating a scene that felt otherworldly.
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During the dream, he walked through a phantasmic realm filled with vibrant colors and floating shapes.
Synonyms
81
7.0
Strange like a dream and not real
40
4.7
Having a pale, quiet look that feels scary
28
4.2
Not real, like something from a dream
21
8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
14
8.7
Looks and feels strange and dreamlike, often with bright changing colors
12
7.0
Seeming to be real but not really there
9
7.7
Very strange and not like anything from this world
9
5.7
Having a calm, unreal quality as if you are half asleep
6
6.8
Like a dream with strange or impossible scenes that seem unreal
5
7.5
Looking like a ghost and causing fear
5
8.8
That makes someone see or hear things that are not real
1
6.5
Having a pale, thin, and quiet appearance that feels spooky
1
9.9
Looking like a ghost and seeming unreal
1
9.8
Light and delicate with a feeling of something not physical
1
9.9
Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream
1
9.9
Looks like a strange dream with changing images
1
9.9
Having the look or feel of a ghost
1
9.4
Appearing real when it is not
Being unreal and like a dream
Appears like a ghost, not solid or easy to see
Showing very strange dreamlike scenes with bright melting colors
Seeming strange and a little like someone from a fairy story
Antonyms
How Dreamlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Phantasmic comes from the Greek word phantasma, which means 'image' or 'ghost', and you can see the same root in the English word phantom. So something phantasmic feels like a dream or a ghost, unreal and strange.