phantom
adjective
- 1
something apparently sensed but having no physical reality
seemed to hear faint phantom bells
the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb
noun
- 1
something existing in perception only
a ghostly apparition at midnight
- 2
a ghostly appearing figure
we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
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