PHANTOM

• (noun) something existing in perception only

  "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

  synonyms : apparition , fantasm , phantasm , phantasma , shadow

  Hamlet witnessed a ghostly apparition at midnight. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) a ghostly appearing figure

  "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"

  synonyms : apparition , fantasm , phantasm , phantasma , specter , spectre

• (adj.) something apparently sensed but having no physical reality

  "seemed to hear faint phantom bells", "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"

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