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05-14-2023-1723 - phantom, spooky, etc. (draft)

Phantom, phantoms, or the phantom may refer to:

  • Spirit (animating force), the vital principle or animating force within all living things
    • Ghost, the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom

Look up spooky in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Spooky or Spookey may refer to:

something that will cause creepiness or uncanniness. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooky

 

 

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From Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.

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phantom (plural phantoms)

  1. A ghost or apparition.
  2. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
  3. (bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
  4. (medical imaging) A test object. A test phantom is an object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.

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phantom (not comparable)

  1. Illusive.

  2. Fictitious or nonexistent.
    a phantom limb

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