noun
- A ghostly appearing figure.
- usage: "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
- Something existing in perception only.
- usage: "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
- synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow
adjective
- Something apparently sensed but having no physical reality.
- usage: "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"
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