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Phantom vs. Reality

Difference Between Phantom and Reality

Phantom

Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition.
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Reality

Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence.
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Phantom

An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion
phantoms of a disturbed mind.
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Reality

the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them
Laura was losing touch with reality
he refuses to face reality
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Phantom

(Medicine) A model of a human body or body part.
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Reality

the state or quality of having existence or substance
youth, when death has no reality
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Phantom

Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom
tales of a phantom ship haunting the bay.
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Reality

The quality or state of being actual or true.
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Phantom

Fictitious or nonexistent, often when intended to deceive
phantom employees on the payroll.
deposits in a phantom bank account.
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Reality

One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual
"the weight of history and political realities" (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.).
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Phantom

Believed to be real even though illusory
a phantom pregnancy.
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Reality

The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.
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Phantom

Being a phantom limb
a phantom arm.
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Reality

That which exists objectively and in fact
Your observations do not seem to be about reality.
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Phantom

A ghost or apparition.
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Reality

Relating to or being a genre of television or film in which a storyline is created by editing footage of people interacting or competing with one another in unscripted, unrehearsed situations.
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Phantom

Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
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Reality

The state of being actual or real; realness.
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
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Phantom

(bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
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Reality

The real world.
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Phantom

(medical imaging) A test object. A test phantom is an object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.
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Reality

A real entity, event, or other fact.
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
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Phantom

Illusive.
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Reality

The entirety of all that is real.
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Phantom

Fictitious or nonexistent.
a phantom limb
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Reality

An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
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Phantom

That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise.
She was a phantom of delight.
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Reality

(obsolete) loyalty; devotion.
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Phantom

Being, or of the nature of, a phantom.
Phantom isles are floating in the skies.
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Reality

; real estate.
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Phantom

a ghostly appearing figure;
we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
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Reality

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
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Phantom

something existing in perception only;
a ghostly apparition at midnight
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Reality

That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
And to realities yield all her shows.
My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me.
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Phantom

something apparently sensed but having no physical reality;
seemed to hear faint phantom bells
the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb
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Reality

Loyalty; devotion.
To express our reality to the emperor.
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Reality

See 2d Realty, 2.
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Reality

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;
his world was shattered
we live in different worlds
for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were
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Reality

the state of being actual or real;
the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him
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Reality

the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be;
businessmen have to face harsh realities
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Reality

the quality possessed by something that is real
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