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phantasmatic

UK/fantəzˈmatɪk/

phantasmatic adjective: phantasmal, incorporeal.

Adjective

phantasmatic (comparative more phantasmatic, superlative most phantasmatic)

  1. Phantasmal, incorporeal.
    • The recourse to the unconscious as a source of subversion makes sense, it seems, only if the paternal law is understood as a rigid and universal determinism which makes of ‘identity’ a fixed and phantasmatic affair.1990, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Taylor & Francis, published 2002, page 85

Forms of phantasmatic

comparativemore phantasmatic
superlativemost phantasmatic

Origin of phantasmatic

From Late Latin phantasmaticus.

Questions about phantasmatic

What does phantasmatic mean?
Phantasmatic means phantasmal, incorporeal.
What part of speech is phantasmatic?
Phantasmatic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce phantasmatic?
Phantasmatic is pronounced /fantəzˈmatɪk/ (UK).

Words near phantasmatic in the dictionary

  1. phantasmality
  2. phantasmally
  3. phantasmascope
  4. phantasmascopes
  5. phantasmata
  6. phantasmatic
  7. phantasmatical
  8. phantasmatically
  9. phantasmatography
  10. phantasmic
  11. phantasmical

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