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fan·tasy (fant′ə sē, -zē)
noun pl. fantasies -·sies
- imagination or fancy; esp., wild, visionary fancy
- an unnatural or bizarre mental image; illusion; phantasm
- an odd notion; whim; caprice
- a work of fiction portraying highly imaginative (sense ) characters or settings that have no counterparts in the real world
- such works, collectively, as a literary form; specif., those works dealing with dragons, elves, ghosts, etc.
- Music fantasia (sense )
- Psychol.
- a more-or-less connected series of mental images, as in a daydream, usually involving some unfulfilled desire
- the activity of forming such images
Etymology: ME fantasie < OFr < L phantasia, idea, notion < Gr, appearance of a thing < phainein, to show, appear < IE base *bhā-, to gleam, shine > OE bonian, to ornament
transitive verb fantasied -·sied, fantasying -·sy·ing
intransitive verb
adjective
- of or like a fantasy
- of or pertaining to any of various games in which scoring is keyed statistically to the performances of actual players in a sport
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
fantasy
n.
Whimsical imagination
Whimsical or fantastic creation
vision, phantasm, invention, illusion, air castle, extravaganza, castle in Spain, flight, figment, fiction, romance, conceit, chimera, mirage, apparition, will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus (Latin), bugbear, nightmare, hallucination, fantasia, science fiction, utopia, Atlantis, fairyland, daydream, pipe dream*.
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Converse of object
- fulfill: David Harrison via e-mail A. Kenya fulfills every romantic African fantasy.
Adjective modifier
- utopian: For him, socialism is not a utopian fantasy that covers the real business of shooting people.
Modifies a noun
- football: He puts fantasy football mock draft 2005 is right now, here!
Noun used with modifier
- premiership: Join my free premiership fantasy football mini league with a first prize of £ 15,000 in the overall game.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
: When you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly loveöthat stuff is all fantasyand veneer You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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