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Definitions for Fantasy

[1] imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
[2] the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.
[3] a mental image, especially when unreal or fantastic; vision: a nightmare fantasy.
[4] Psychology . an imagined or conjured up sequence fulfilling a psychological need; daydream.
[5] a hallucination.
[6] a supposition based on no solid foundation; visionary idea; illusion: dreams of Utopias and similar fantasies.
[7] caprice; whim.
[8] an ingenious or fanciful thought, design, or invention.
[9] Also fantasia. Literature . an imaginative or fanciful work, especially one dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters: The stories of Poe are fantasies of horror.
[10] Music . fantasia(def 1) .
[11] noting or relating to any of various games or leagues in which fans assemble players of a professional sport into imaginary teams, and points are scored based on the performance of these players in real games: fantasy football; fantasy sports.
[12] to form mental images; imagine; fantasize.
[13] Rare . to write or play fantasias.
[14] imagination unrestricted by reality (as modifier ) a fantasy world
[15] a creation of the imagination, esp a weird or bizarre one
[16] psychol a series of pleasing mental images, usually serving to fulfil a need not gratified in reality the activity of forming such images
[17] a whimsical or far-fetched notion
[18] an illusion, hallucination, or phantom
[19] a highly elaborate imaginative design or creation
[20] music another word for fantasia, fancy (def. 13), (rarely) development (def. 5)
[21] literature having a large fantasy content a prose or dramatic composition of this type
[22] (modifier) of or relating to a competition, often in a newspaper, in which a participant selects players for an imaginary ideal team, and points are awarded according to the actual performances of the chosen players fantasy football
[23] a less common word for fantasize

Words related to Fantasy

reverie, nightmare, delusion, fancy, illusion, vision, mirage, invention, chimera, trip, rainbow, creativity, originality, bubble, flight, apparition, figment, fabrication, vagary, daydream

Words nearby Fantasy

fantast, fantastic, fantastically, fantasticate, fantastico, fantasy, fantasyland, fanti, fantin-latour, fantoccini, fantod

Origin of Fantasy

1275–1325; Middle English fantasie imaginative faculty, mental image (< Anglo-French, Old French ) < Latin phantasia < Greek phantasía an idea, notion, image, literally, a making visible; see fantastic, -y3

Other words from Fantasy

non·fan·ta·sy , noun, plural non·fan·ta·sies.

Word origin for Fantasy

C14 fantasie , from Latin phantasia , from Greek phantazein to make visible

Synonyms for Fantasy

delusion, fancy, illusion, nightmare, reverie, vision, Atlantis, apparition, appearance, bubble, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancying, fantasia, figment, flight, hallucination, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mirage, objectifying, originality, rainbow, trip, utopia, vagary, air castle, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, head trip, mind trip