fantasistn.
One who ‘weaves’ fantasies.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > science fiction, etc. > [noun] > fantasy > writer of
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1923 Glasgow Herald 10 May 6 Wilde, a chartered fantasist.
1927 E. M. Forster Aspects of Novel vi. 141 The other novelists say ‘Here is something that might occur in your lives’, the fantasist ‘Here is something that could not occur’.
1928 Observer 1 Jan. 5/2 The Fantasists or Special Geniuses!
1928 Observer 2 Sept. 5 There is, I believe, no agreement among statisticians as to the number of H. G. Wells's. There are the sociologist and the fantasist and the novelist and the prophet.
1934 E. Bowen Cat Jumps 190 Mrs. Letherton-Channing could countenance a diluted reality but could not suffer a fellow fantasist.
1960 Guardian 21 Sept. 7/1 Pictures that vary in mood between the poetry of a fantasist and the illusionism of a surrealist.
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