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1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of

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1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. Cudworth. Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. Jer. Taylor.

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  • DREAMINESS
    The state of being dreamy.
  • FALSENESS
    The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
  • VISIONARY
    1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
  • ILLUSIONABLE
    Liable to illusion.
  • FALSE-FACED
    Hypocritical. Shak.
  • DREAM
    Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
  • PHANTASM
    1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of
  • FALSETTO
    A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
  • DREAMER
    1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
  • ERRORFUL
    Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
  • ILLUSIONIST
    One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
  • VISION
    The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That
  • VISIONARINESS
    The quality or state of being visionary.
  • PHANTASMAGORY
    See PHANTASMAGORIA
  • ILLUSION
    A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination,
  • VISIONLESS
    Destitute of vision; sightless.
  • PHANTASMAGORIC
    Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.
  • DECEPTION
    1. The act of deceiving or misleading. South. 2. The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South. 3. That which deceives or is intended to
  • PHANTASMAL
    Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.
  • FALSE
    Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,
  • UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
    Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
  • MISDIVISION
    Wrong division.
  • TERRORLESS
    Free from terror. Poe.
  • SELF-DELUSION
    The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • DISILLUSION
    The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.
  • PROVISIONARY
    Provisional. Burke.
  • PROVISIONAL
    Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
  • INVISION
    Want of vision or of the power of seeing. Sir T. Browne.

 

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