Phantasmic vs Illusion – What’s the difference?

Phantasmic vs Illusion - What's the difference?

As an adjective phantasmic is like a phantasm; ghostly, unreal.

As a noun illusion is.

phantasmic

Like a phantasm; ghostly, unreal.

(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.

We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.

Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.

* 2002 , (The Flaming Lips),

You realize the sun don’t go down it’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.

(countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.

Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.

(countable) A magician’s trick.

(uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.

* (the state of being deceived or misled) misapprehension

* illusionist
* illusory
* optical illusion
* under the illusion that