imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.
a mental image, especially when unreal or fantastic; vision: a nightmare fantasy.
Psychology. an imagined or conjured up sequence fulfilling a psychological need; daydream.
a hallucination.
a supposition based on no solid foundation; visionary idea; illusion: dreams of Utopias and similar fantasies.
caprice; whim.
an ingenious or fanciful thought, design, or invention.
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.
Music. fantasia (def. 1).
adjective
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.
verb (used with or without object),fan·ta·sied,fan·ta·sy·ing.
to form mental images; imagine; fantasize.
Rare. to write or play fantasias.
Sometimes phan·ta·sy .
Origin of fantasy
First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English fantasie “imaginative faculty, mental image” (from Anglo-French, Old French ), from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasía “an idea, notion, image,” literally, “a making visible, display”; see fantastic, -y3
synonym study for fantasy
1. See fancy.
OTHER WORDS FROM fantasy
non·fan·ta·sy,noun,pluralnon·fan·ta·sies.
Words nearby fantasy
fantast, fantastic, fantastically, fantasticate, fantastico, fantasy, fantasyland, fan the flames, Fanti, Fantin-Latour, fantoccini
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We indulge them in all their caprices, until we are enabled to decide with certainty, on the fantasy the brain has conjured up.
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This time he was weaving no fantasy round a whiff of violets.
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In a flash Clarence had wrought a feasible plan out of Jim's fantasy.
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Of course, it sounded like a fantasy, and if I had been in Goil's place, I would have thought it so.
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British Dictionary definitions for fantasy
fantasy
phantasy
/ (ˈfæntəsɪ) /
nounplural-sies
imagination unrestricted by reality
(as modifier)a fantasy world
a creation of the imagination, esp a weird or bizarre one
psychol
a series of pleasing mental images, usually serving to fulfil a need not gratified in reality
the activity of forming such images
a whimsical or far-fetched notion
an illusion, hallucination, or phantom
a highly elaborate imaginative design or creation
music another word for fantasia, fancy (def. 13), (rarely) development (def. 5)
literature having a large fantasy content
a prose or dramatic composition of this type
(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 playersfantasy football
verb-sies, -syingor-sied
a less common word for fantasize
Word Origin for fantasy
C14 fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantazein to make visible