"phantasmal" is a real word and is commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is related to a fantasy or illusion, or something that is perceived to be unreal or imaginary. Example sentence: The phantasmal creature in the dream seemed so real, I could almost feel its presence.
Munch, by turns, looks ghostly, phantasmal, haunted".Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream", Sue Prideaux's new biography from Yale University Press, presents detailed evidence of the morbidity, instability and mental turmoil that so coloured Munch's inner landscape.
"I just want to go on record that I'm finding this physically upsetting," said Parker, as she read the deposition of one of the hysterical teenagers who sustained the witch hunts, to the effect that Esther Elwell had murdered her neighbour in phantasmal form.
And tourist London needs them, just as it needs red buses and the phantasmal possibility of meeting Prince Philip – a black-cab driver himself when younger, literally as well as in spirit – outside Buckingham Palace.
It brought a phantasmal new dimension to my experience of her writing.
It describes the difference between the two this way: "The dream-percepts are recognized, on reflection, as having been hallucinatory... while the waking phantasmal percepts are apt to be regarded as objective phenomena, which really impress the eye or the ear from outside".
He championed photographs taken in 1917 by two girls that purported to show such phantasmal creatures, even though, as one of the girls later admitted, "I could see the hatpins holding up the figures.
Each TV displayed a different section of the machine, producing the effect of a phantasmal assembly line.
Proponents, although they usually don't come out and say so, know that the mythical, phantasmal aspects of the death penalty are precisely what account for its persistence.
His phantasmal self spends the rest of the show -- which is directed by Matthew Warchus -- trying to make contact with Molly.
Founded in 1984 by the sculptor Charles Albert Szukalski, the museum features phantasmal pieces like "The Last Supper" (13 ghostly figures cast against the mountains beyond).
You look at that outsize, contemptuous, phantasmal face, and you see a charismatic specter in control, speaking words that unsettle you.
