Appearance and Phantasm

Appearance

Appearance noun - The outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality.

Phantasm and appearance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Phantasm" instead a noun "Appearance".

Nearby Words: appear, appeared, appearing

Phantasm

Phantasm noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.
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Synonyms for Phantasm

Appearance and phantasm are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Appearance" instead a noun "Phantasm".

Nearby Word: phantasmal

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Batman: Mask of the Phantasm The Phantasm has a similar appearance to Batman and targets criminals like Batman does, which leads the police to blame The Caped Crusader for the killings.
  • Western Animation / Batman: Mask of the Phantasm No Sell: The Phantasm's first appearance has a mob boss shooting at him almost a dozen times with the bullets not doing a thing.
  • Jacob Marley Apparel Mort is a Shapeshifting Master of Illusion whose standard appearance is a "bedsheet phantasm"; he chose the look shortly after his death upon his recruitment into the Realm of the Dead, and when he finally goes into the ether, reverts briefly to the appearance and uniform he had when he died.
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