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| fan·ta·sy [ fántəssee ] |
noun (plural fan·ta·sies) |
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1. imaginative power: the creative power of the imagination
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2. mental image or dream: an image or dream created by the imagination
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3. impractical idea: an unrealistic and impractical idea
  She has this fantasy that someday she'll write a novel.
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4. psychology creation of mental images: in psychology, the creation of exaggerated mental images in response to an ungratified need
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5. literature genre of fiction: a type of fiction featuring imaginary worlds and magical or supernatural events
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6. music
Same as fantasia
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transitive and intransitive verb (past and past participle fan·ta·sied, present participle fan·ta·sy·ing, 3rd person present singular fan·ta·sies) |
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Same as fantasize
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| [14th century. Via Old French< Greek phantasia "appearance, imagination" < phantazein "make visible" < phainein "to show"] |
