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FANTASY WORLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fantasy world mean?
• FANTASY WORLD (noun)
The noun FANTASY WORLD has 1 sense:
1. something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
Familiarity information: FANTASY WORLD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
fairyland; fantasy world; phantasy world
Hypernyms ("fantasy world" is a kind of...):
fantasy; phantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fantasy world"):
paracosm (a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history)
Context examples
You are a practical soul, and you are always in the real world, not a fantasy world.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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