Fantasy Definition

făntə-sē, -zē

fantasied, fantasies, fantasying

noun

fantasies

The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.

American Heritage

Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.

American Heritage

An unnatural or bizarre mental image; illusion; phantasm.

Webster's New World

A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.

American Heritage

An odd notion; whim; caprice.

Webster's New World

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adjective

Of or like a fantasy.

Webster's New World

Of or pertaining to any of various games in which scoring is keyed statistically to the performances of actual players in a particular sport.

Webster's New World

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verb

fantasied, fantasies, fantasying

To form fantasies about.

Webster's New World

To imagine; visualize.

American Heritage

To indulge in fantasies, as by daydreaming.

Webster's New World

(literary) To fantasize (about)

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Fantasy

Singular:

fantasy

Plural:

fantasies

Middle English fantasie, fantsy from Old French fantasie from Latin phantasia from Greek phantasiā appearance, imagination from phantazesthai to appear from phantos visible from phainesthai phan- to appear passive of phainein to show bhā-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasia, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantazō, “to show at the eye or the mind”), from φαίνω (phainō, “to show in light”), from the same root as ϕῶς (phôs, “light”).

From Wiktionary