phantoms
Ghosts without substance
Phantoms are ghosts or apparitions—things that appear to be present but have no physical reality.
The word extends to anything illusory or elusive: phantom pain persists after a limb is gone, a phantom menace is a threat that may not exist.
Phantom also describes things that exist only on paper: phantom employees on a payroll, phantom votes in an election.
Apparition of the dead
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
poltergeist · shade · haunting · ectoplasm · séance · manifestation · paranormal · ethereal
Mind's retention capacity
- pastTime already gone
- lingeringRemaining beyond expected duration
- shadowLight blocked by object
- echoReflected sound wave
remnant · trace · vestige · haunting · presence · absence · loss · grief
Atmospheric optical deception
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- figmentImagined thing, unreal
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- visionAbility to see
chimera · imaginary · trick · perception · mental · apparition · psyche · illusive
Theatrical art combining song
- ChristineFeminine given name
- masqueradeDeceptive act or costume party
- chandelierDecorative suspended light fixture
- maskFace-worn concealment
Andrew Lloyd Webber · musical · Paris · catacombs · disfigured · lair · obsession · Broadway
ghost
Apparition of the dead
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
spirit · poltergeist · shade · haunting · ectoplasm · séance · manifestation · paranormal · ethereal · visitation
memory
Mind's retention capacity
echo · remnant · trace · vestige · haunting · presence · absence · loss · grief · nostalgia
mirage
Atmospheric optical deception
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- figmentImagined thing, unreal
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
vision · chimera · imaginary · trick · perception · mental · apparition · psyche · illusive · mind's eye
opera
Theatrical art combining song
- ChristineFeminine given name
- masqueradeDeceptive act or costume party
- chandelierDecorative suspended light fixture
mask · Andrew Lloyd Webber · musical · Paris · catacombs · disfigured · lair · obsession · Broadway · West End
jet
Forced fluid stream
- fighterOne who engages in combat
- aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
- F-4American supersonic fighter
squadron · pilot · cockpit · supersonic · combat · aviation · reconnaissance · Vietnam · carrier · airforce
- ghostsapparitions, ghosts, apparition, specter, specters
- Hallucinationsvisual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucination, auditory hallucination, seeing things
- Halloweenjack-o-lantern, trick or treating, haunted mansion, pumpkin, trick-or-treat
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- haunted placeshaunted house, ghosts, haunted mansion, apparitions, haunted castle
- hauntingsghosts, apparition, apparitions, ghost sighting, ghostly apparition
phantomsrealities
Things that exist
flesh and blood · actualities · material things · bodies · flesh
- phantom painsSensations from amputated limbs
- Phantom of the OperaMasked musical theater specter
- phantom limbSensation from amputated part
- Phantom MenaceImaginary or invisible danger
- phantom pregnancyBelieved conception without fetus
- The Phantom Tollbooth