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fantasy Definition

fan·tasy (fant′ə sē, -zē)

noun pl. -·sies

  1. imagination or fancy; esp., wild, visionary fancy
  2. an unnatural or bizarre mental image; illusion; phantasm
  3. an odd notion; whim; caprice
    1. a work of fiction portraying highly imaginative (sense ) characters or settings that have no counterparts in the real world
    2. such works, collectively, as a literary form; specif., those works dealing with dragons, elves, ghosts, etc.
  5. Music fantasia (sense )
  6. Psychol.
    1. a more-or-less connected series of mental images, as in a daydream, usually involving some unfulfilled desire
    2. 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 -·sied, -·sy·ing

to form fantasies about

intransitive verb

to indulge in fantasies, as by daydreaming

adjective

  1. of or like a fantasy
  2. of or pertaining to any of various games in which scoring is keyed statistically to the performances of actual players in a sport

fantasy Synonyms

fantasy

n.

  1. Whimsical imagination

    reverie, daydream, flight of fancy, escape; see fancy 2.

  2. 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*.

fantasy Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • indulge: Songs indulging similar fantasies have the advantage of being always to hand.
  • weave: Actually, you tend to weave many fantasies around John.
  • fulfill: David Harrison via e-mail A. Kenya fulfills every romantic African fantasy.

Adjective modifier

  • erotic: Someone he'd entertained erotic fantasies about for years.
  • utopian: For him, socialism is not a utopian fantasy that covers the real business of shooting people.
  • pure: The former Spurs striker cost £ 1m, which was pure fantasy given the state of the club just a few months earlier.
  • masturbatory: Her love life is a wasteland, littered with poetic couplets and masturbatory fantasy.
  • heroic: Our current patron is best-selling author of heroic fantasy David Gemmell.
  • sexual: Just the sort of sexual fantasy some people would pay good money for.

Modifies a noun

  • football: He puts fantasy football mock draft 2005 is right now, here!
  • trilogy: I wanted to produce a fantasy trilogy with all the grit, and cruelty, and humor of real life.
  • novel: In 1848, he married Effie Gray, for whom he wrote the early fantasy novel The King of the Golden River.
  • league: Check the rally results or the fantasy rally league standings.
  • epic: I first began to write as a teenager, when I first had the idea for a sprawling science fiction and fantasy epic.
  • adventure: Fantasy adventure in a tropical climate with its roots far from the northern European staples of the genre.

Noun used with modifier

  • premiership: Join my free premiership fantasy football mini league with a first prize of £ 15,000 in the overall game.
  • epic: An epic fantasy can range up to 300,000 words or more.
  • sci-fi: My own sci-fi fantasy would then be realized when this planet become uninhabitable due to the efforts of its inhabitants.
  • childhood: Her aim is to create an imaginary world for the customer to enter, a nostalgic glimpse of childhood fantasies.
  • horror: It's not a " gothic horror fantasy " it's fantasy.
fantasy Quotes

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.

—Galloway,Janice

: 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.

—Albee, Edward Franklin, III

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.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

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