Main entry: apparition, shadow, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, fantasm
Definition: something existing in perception only
Usage: a ghostly apparition at midnight
Main entry: phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre, apparition, fantasm
Definition: a ghostly appearing figure
Usage: we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
Main entry: phantom
Definition: something apparently sensed but having no physical reality
Usage: seemed to hear faint phantom bells; the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb