fantasy
//ˈfæntəsi//
Forms
- Plural
- fantasies
- present (v1)
- fantasy
- past (v2)
- fantasied
- past participle (v3)
- fantasied
- present participle
- fantasying
- 3rd person singular
- fantasies
Definitions
1.That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.
- Is not this something more than fantasy?
- A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory.
2.The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
3.A fantastical design.
- Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
4.The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.(slang)
1.To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
2.To fantasize about (something).
- Instead of phantasying marriage, she actually feels that she is already married to the man of her phantasy.
- Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
3.To conceive mentally; to imagine.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2777
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂