Synonyms and Antonyms of phantasm
1
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
- frightened by the phantasms of his own making
chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, pipe dream, unreality, vision
ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp
brainchild, idea
concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention
envisaging, imaging, visualization
cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia
daymare, nightmare
2
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
- believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death
apparition, bogey (also bogie), familiar spirit, ghost, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith
angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn), shaitan
double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch
lemures, manes
incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi)
cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp
