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Fantasy

Fantasy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Fantasy? [n] imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy" [n] something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [n] fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Fantasy: fancy \| illusion \| phantasy \| phantasy Related Terms \| Find terms related to Fantasy: absence of mind \| absentmindedness \| absorption \| abstractedness \| abstraction \| adventure story \| alienation \| allegory \| apologue \| apparition \| appearance \| ardor \| autism \| autistic thinking \| avoidance mechanism \| be absent \| bedtime story \| bemusement \| bizarrerie \| blame-shifting \| boutade \| brainchild \| brainstorm \| brown study \| bubble \| capriccio \| caprice \| castle-building \| chimera \| compensation \| conceit \| conceiving \| concoction \| concupiscence \| crank \| craze \| crazy idea \| creativity \| crotchet \| curiosity \| daydream \| daydreamer \| daydreaming \| decompensation \| defense mechanism \| delirium \| delusion \| depth of thought \| dereism \| dereistic thinking \| desideration \| desire \| detective story \| displacement \| dissociation \| divagate \| dream \| dream of \| dreaming \| drive \| eagerness \| eidolon \| emotional insulation \| enchantment \| engrossment \| envisioning \| escape \| escape into fantasy \| escape mechanism \| escapism \| fable \| fabliau \| fad \| fairy tale \| fancy \| fantasizing \| fantasque \| fantastic notion \| fantasticism \| fantasying \| ferlie \| fiction \| figment \| figure \| fit of abstraction \| flight \| flight of fancy \| flimflam \| folk story \| folktale \| fool notion \| form \| freak \| freak out \| freakish inspiration \| fumes of fancy \| gest \| ghost story \| go woolgathering \| grotesquerie \| hallucination \| harebrained idea \| hope \| horme \| horse opera \| humor \| idle fancy \| idolum \| illusion \| image \| imagery \| imagination \| imaginativeness \| imagining \| insubstantial image \| intellectual curiosity \| invention \| inventiveness \| isolation \| kink \| legend \| libido \| love story \| lust for learning \| maggot \| make-believe \| Marchen \| masquerade \| megrim \| mind \| miracle \| mirage \| moon \| mooning \| moonraking \| muse \| musefulness \| musing \| muted ecstasy \| mystery \| mystery story \| myth \| mythology \| mythos \| need \| negativism \| nightmare \| notion \| nursery tale \| originality \| overcompensation \| parable \| passing fancy \| passion \| phantasm \| phantasma \| phantasmagoria \| phantom \| pipe \| pipe dream \| pipe-dream \| pipe-dreaming \| pleasure \| pleasure principle \| preoccupation \| presence \| prodigy \| projection \| psychotaxis \| quirk \| rainbow \| rationalization \| resistance \| reverie \| romance \| science fiction \| sexual desire \| shade \| shadow \| shape \| shocker \| sick fancy \| sign \| sociological adjustive reactions \| space fiction \| space opera \| specter \| stargaze \| stargazing \| stray \| study \| sublimation \| substitution \| suspense story \| thick-coming fancies \| thirst for knowledge \| thriller \| toy \| trance \| trip \| urge \| vagary \| vapor \| vision \| waking dream \| Walter Mitty \| wander \| want \| wanting \| Western \| Western story \| Westerner \| whim \| whimsy \| whim-wham \| whodunit \| wildest dream \| wildest dreams \| will \| will and pleasure \| wish \| wish fulfillment \| wishful thinking \| wish-fulfillment fantasy \| withdrawal \| wonder \| wonderwork \| woolgathering \| work of fiction \| wraith See Also \| bubble \| dream \| fairyland \| fantasy life \| fantasy world \| fiction \| ignis fatuus \| imagination \| imaginativeness \| misconception \| phantasy life \| phantasy world \| pipe dream \| science fiction \| vision \| will-o'-the-wisp \| wishful thinking Fantasy In Webster's Dictionary \Fan"tasy\, n.; pl. {Fantasies}. [See {Fancy}.] 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. --Milton. 2. Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. --Hawthorne. \Fan"tasy\, v. t. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] --Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. --Robynson (More's Utopia).

Fantasy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fantasy?

[n] imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"
[n] something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
[n] fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fantasy: fancy | illusion | phantasy | phantasy

Fantasy In Webster's Dictionary

\Fan"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Fantasies}. [See {Fancy}.]
1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful
   conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice;
   humor.

         Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak.

         A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory.
                                               --Milton.

2. Fantastic designs.

         Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold
         thread.                               --Hawthorne.


\Fan"ta*sy\, v. t.
To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
[Obs.] --Cavendish.

      Which he doth most fantasy.              --Robynson
                                               (More's
                                               Utopia).

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