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/ˈfantəsi,ˈfantəzi/
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noun: fantasy
1.
the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.
"his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy"
Similar:
imagination
creativity
fancy
invention
originality
vision
speculation
make-believe
daydreaming
reverie
Opposite:
truth
realism
a fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person often dwells and which reflects their conscious or unconscious wishes.
plural noun: fantasies
"the notion of being independent is a child's ultimate fantasy"
Similar:
dream
daydream
pipe dream
flight of fancy
fanciful notion
wish
wishful thinking
fond hope
chimera
delusion
illusion
figment of the imagination
castle in the air
castle in Spain
pie in the sky
cloud cuckoo land
an idea with no basis in reality.
"it is a misleading fantasy to suggest that the bill can be implemented"
a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.
Similar:
myth
legend
fable
fairy tale
romance
science fiction
sci-fi
horror
sword and sorcery
escapism
Opposite:
realism
denoting a competition or league in which participants select imaginary teams from among the players in a real sports league and score points according to the actual performance of their players.
"he's my second-round draft choice in fantasy baseball this year"
2.
MUSIC
a fantasia.
verbLITERARY
verb: fantasy; 3rd person present: fantasies; past tense: fantasied; past participle: fantasied; gerund or present participle: fantasying
imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about.
"it is ludicrous to fantasy 'disinventing' the hydrogen bomb"
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French fantasie, via Latin from Greek phantasia 'imagination, appearance', later 'phantom', from phantazein 'make visible'. From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantasy was also used.
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FANTASY | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
6 days ago — a pleasant situation that you enjoy thinking about but is unlikely to happen, or the activity of imagining things like this: Steve's favourite ...
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1 : the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need an object of fantasy · a mental image ...
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A fantasy is a pleasant situation or event that you think about and that you want to happen, especially one that is unlikely to happen. ...fantasies of romance ...
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A fantasy is something you imagine, which might involve dragons, unicorns, or an imaginary best friend. If you live in a fantasy world, you're not worrying ...
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imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained. · the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.
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Fantasy definition · The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy. · To imagine; visualize. · An unnatural or bizarre mental image; illusion; phantasm. · Fantasy is ...
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FANTASY meaning: 1 : something that is produced by the imagination an idea about doing something that is far removed from normal reality; ...
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Definition of FANTASY (noun): pleasant experience you imagine happening to you; story showing a lot of imagination.
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nounplural noun fantasies · 1.1count noun A fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person often dwells and which reflects their conscious or unconscious ...
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fantasy ; [countable] a pleasant situation that you imagine but that is unlikely to happen. He spoke of his childhood fantasies about becoming a famous football ...
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