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fantasying

Variant of fantasy

noun pl. fantasies

  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.
  4. Music fantasia (sense )
  5. 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

transitive verb fantasied, fantasying

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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