phantasm

n.

1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma.
2. An illusory mental image. Also called phantasma.
3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses.

[Middle English fantasme, from Old French, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein, to make visible, from phantos, visible, from phainein, to show.]

phantasmal phan·tas'mal (făn-tăz'məl) or phan·tas'mic (-tăz'mĭk) adj.

noun

1. A supernatural being, such as a ghost: apparition, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, eidolon, ghost, phantasma, phantom, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, visitant, wraith. Informal spook. Regional haunt. See beings, supernatural.
2. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasma, reverie, vision. See real/imaginary.
3. An erroneous perception of reality: delusion, hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, phantasma, will-o'-the-wisp. See real/imaginary.

(făn'tăz'əm)
n.

1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; an apparition.
2. An illusory mental image.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - drømmebillede, blændværk

Nederlands (Dutch)
hersenschim, fantoom, illusie

Français (French)
n. - fantôme, (Psych) fantasme

Deutsch (German)
n. - Phantom

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χίμαιρα, αυταπάτη, φάντασμα, ονειροφαντασία

Italiano (Italian)
fantasma

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fantasma (m)

Русский (Russian)
фантом

Español (Spanish)
n. - fantasma

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vålnad, skenbild, fantasifoster

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
幻像, 幽灵, 幻影

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 幻像, 幽靈, 幻影

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 환영, 유령

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 幻, 幻想, 幻像, 幽霊

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وهم, خيال, شبح, صورة وهميه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תעתוע, רוח רפאים, פרי הדמיון‬

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