Library Word of the Week

Halloween is next week, so this week's word is a little scary. 

Phantasm

1:  a product of fantasy: asa :  delusive appearance :  illusionb :  ghost, specterc :  a figment of the imagination

2 :  a mental representation of a real object


Examples of PHANTASM

1. <frightened by the phantasms of his own making>

1. <believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death>

Origin of PHANTASM

Middle English fantasme, from Anglo-French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Greek, from phantazein to present to the mind — more at fancy
First Known Use: 13th century