fantasy

noun pl. fantasies -·sies

1. imagination or fancy; esp., wild, visionary fancy
2. an unnatural or bizarre mental image; illusion; phantasm
3. an odd notion; whim; caprice
4. 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 fantasied -·sied, fantasying -·sy·ing

intransitive verb

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