PHANTASY (phantasied)

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Irregular inflected form: phantasied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does phantasy mean? 

• PHANTASY (noun)
  The noun PHANTASY has 3 senses:

1. something many people believe that is false

2. fiction with a large amount of imagination in it

3. imagination unrestricted by reality

  Familiarity information: PHANTASY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHANTASY (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("phantasy" is a kind of...):

misconception (an incorrect conception)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasy"):

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)

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 ("phantasy" 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 "phantasy"):

science fiction (literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Imagination unrestricted by reality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fantasy; phantasy

Context example:

a schoolgirl fantasy

Hypernyms ("phantasy" 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 "phantasy"):

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))