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FANTASY (fantasied)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fantasy mean?
• FANTASY (noun)
The noun FANTASY has 3 senses:
1. imagination unrestricted by reality
2. fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
3. something many people believe that is false
Familiarity information: FANTASY used as a noun is uncommon.
• FANTASY (verb)
The verb FANTASY has 1 sense:
1. indulge in fantasies
Familiarity information: FANTASY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Imagination unrestricted by reality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
fantasy; phantasy
Context example:
a schoolgirl fantasy
Hypernyms ("fantasy" is a kind of...):
imagination; imaginativeness; vision (the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fantasy"):
dream; pipe dream (a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe))
fantasy life; phantasy life (an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world)
fairyland; fantasy world; phantasy world (something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality))
Derivation:
fantasist (a creator of fantasies)
fantasize (indulge in fantasies)
fantastic (existing in fancy only)
fantastic (fanciful and unrealistic; foolish)
fantastical (existing in fancy only)
fantasy (indulge in fantasies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
fantasy; phantasy
Context example:
she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies
Hypernyms ("fantasy" is a kind of...):
fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fantasy"):
science fiction (literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society)
Derivation:
fantasist (a creator of fantasies)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something many people believe that is false
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
fancy; fantasy; illusion; phantasy
Context example:
they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
Hypernyms ("fantasy" is a kind of...):
misconception (an incorrect conception)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fantasy"):
bubble (an impracticable and illusory idea)
ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp (an illusion that misleads)
wishful thinking (the illusion that what you wish for is actually true)
Derivation:
fantasize; fantasy (indulge in fantasies)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it fantasies Past simple: fantasied
Past participle: fantasied
-ing form: fantasying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indulge in fantasies
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
Context example:
he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company
Hypernyms (to "fantasy" is one way to...):
conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derivation:
fantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)
fantasy (something many people believe that is false)
Context examples
You are a practical soul, and you are always in the real world, not a fantasy world.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
What I say is so much fantasy to you.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
While I, quoth the other loudly, do maintain the good sense and extraordinary wisdom of that most learned William against the crack-brained fantasies of the muddy Scotchman, who hath hid such little wit as he has under so vast a pile of words, that it is like one drop of Gascony in a firkin of ditch-water.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was in that rare and blissful state wherein a man sees his dreams stalk out from the crannies of fantasy and become fact.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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