| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasma, reverie, vision. See REAL. 2. A supernatural being, such as a ghost: apparition, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, eidolon, ghost, phantasma, phantom, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, visitant, wraith. Informal : spook. Regional : haunt. See BEINGS, SUPERNATURAL. 3. An erroneous perception of reality: delusion, hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, phantasma, will-o'-the-wisp. See REAL.
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