phantasmata
- noun
- /fænˈtæzməˌtɑ/
- Archaic
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fantasmas
- She described the phantasmata that filled her visions, remnants of a restless night filled with fears and uncertainties.
Examples
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Yet, both are fraught with danger due to the incessant attraction of phantasmata.
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These examples suffice to illustrate the difficulty that phantasmata present for a Christian Platonist like Augustine.
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Phantasmata are also at the root of idolatry.
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Moreover, due to the Fall, the imagination is prone to be burdened by phantasmata that deflect its attention away from God.
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Perhaps nowhere else in his works than in the Confessions is his anguish over the problem of phantasmata so palpably visible.
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As second-order memory images voluntarily induced in the mind, phantasmata can impair the proper functioning of the intellect and hamper its efforts to find truth.
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In the case of heretics, Augustine finds that not only do phantasmata account for the inability to comprehend the fundamental truth of Christianity, but also that they cause the inner and outer turbulence of the human spirit.
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In this respect, the latest idolaters are worse than the pagans were because their hearts have now become the temples of phantasmata, the false gods of emptiness that conceal the only God who truly is "I am who am."
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On more than one occasion, Augustine describes the futility of the struggle to climb the heights of contemplative awareness as long as hordes of phantasmata continue to afflict the mind's eye and the pull of evil habits continues to weaken the will.
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In the midst of his troubled sleep, he was haunted by phantasmata that danced like shadows in his dreams.
Synonyms
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8.6
A ghost that people say appears and frightens them at night
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8.9
A ghost that people see suddenly
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9.9
A thing that seems real but is only in the mind, like a ghost
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A ghost-like figure that seems real but is not
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A frightening ghost that appears at night
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A spirit without a body that appears to people or stays near places
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Etymology
The word phantasmata comes from the Greek word phantasma, which means 'appearance' or 'image', and it is the plural form of that word; think of the familiar English word phantom. So phantasmata are the ghostly 'appearances' or imagined figures you see in dreams or hallucinations.