Synonyms of phantasms

phantasms

noun

variants also fantasms

plural of phantasm

1

as in visions

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

frightened by the phantasms of his own making

Synonyms & Similar Words

• visions
• illusions
• dreams
• delusions
• phantasies
• fantasies
• unrealities
• daydreams
• hallucinations
• chimeras
• ideas
• figments
• nightmares
• conceits
• fancies
• pipe dreams
• nonentities
• castles in the air
• mirages
• castles in Spain
• inventions
• fictions
• fabrications
• concoctions
• utopias
• fables
• visualizations
• will-o'-the-wisps
• ignes fatui
• brainchildren
• daymares
• cloudlands
• cloud-cuckoo-lands
• Shangri-las

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

2

as in apparitions

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• apparitions
• ghosts
• spirits
• spectres
• visions
• phantoms
• haunts
• shadows
• specters
• wraiths
• materializations
• bogies
• poltergeists
• visitants
• spooks
• sprites
• shades
• familiar spirits
• bogeys
• genii
• genii
• hants
• daimons
• djinns
• daimones
• jinns
• djinn
• familiars
• angels
• jinn
• genies
• zombies
• doppelgangers
• ghouls
• doubles
• demons
• manes
• incubi
• vampires
• doppelgängers
• succubi
• daemons
• lemures
• fetches
• lamias
• imps
• geniuses
• shaitans
• incubuses
• devils
• lamiae
• cacodemons
• fiends