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fan·ta·sy    Audio Help   [fan-tuh-see, -zee] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -sies, verb, -sied, -sy·ing.
–noun
1.imagination, esp. when extravagant and unrestrained.
2.the forming of mental images, esp. wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.
3.a mental image, esp. 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, esp. one dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters: The stories of Poe are fantasies of horror.
10.Music. fantasia (def. 1).
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
11.to form mental images; imagine; fantasize.
12.Rare. to write or play fantasias.
Also, phantasy.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME fantasie imaginative faculty, mental image (< AF, OF) < L phantasia < Gk phantasía an idea, notion, image, lit., a making visible; see fantastic, -y3]

—Synonyms 1. See fancy.
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Main Entry:  fantasy
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  baroque, bizarre, capricious, eccentric, extravagant, fanciful, grotesque, irrational, odd, preposterous, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly, unrealistic, visionary, fantasque, gothic
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Main Entry:  fantasy
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  apparition, chimera, desire, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, mirage, notion, phantasm, reverie, romance, vagary, vision, whim, whimsy, autism, cockaigne, ethereality, extravaganza, fantasia, fantasticality, walter mitty
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Main Entry:  fantasy
Part of Speech:  verb
Synonyms:  fantasticate
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