'Fantasy' definitions:
Definition of 'fantasy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy" [syn: fantasy, phantasy]
noun
Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies" [syn: fantasy, phantasy]
noun
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy]
verb
Definition of 'Fantasy'
From: GCIDE
- Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, n.; pl. Fantasies. [See Fancy.]
- 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. [1913 Webster]
- Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fantastic designs. [1913 Webster]
- Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fantasy'
From: GCIDE
- Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, v. t. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] --Cavendish. [1913 Webster]
- Which he doth most fantasy. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster] Fantigue
Synonyms of 'fantasy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorption,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- adventure story,
- alienation,
- allegory,
- apologue,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- ardor,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- be absent,
- bedtime story,
- bemusement,
- bizarrerie,
- blame-shifting,
- boutade,
- brainchild,
- brainstorm,
- brown study,
- bubble,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- castle-building,
- chimera,
- compensation,
- conceit,
- conceiving,
- concoction,
- concupiscence,
- crank,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- creativity,
- crotchet,
- curiosity,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- depth of thought,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- desideration,
- desire,
- detective story,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- divagate,
- dream,
- dream of,
- dreaming,
- drive,
- eagerness,
- eidolon,
- emotional insulation,
- enchantment,
- engrossment,
- envisioning,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fad,
- fairy tale,
- fancy,
- fantasizing,
- fantasque,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasticism,
- fantasying,
- ferlie,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figure,
- fit of abstraction,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- fool notion,
- form,
- freak,
- freak out,
- freakish inspiration,
- fumes of fancy,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- go woolgathering,
- grotesquerie,
- hallucination,
- harebrained idea,
- hope,
- horme,
- horse opera,
- humor,
- idle fancy,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imaginativeness,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- intellectual curiosity,
- invention,
- inventiveness,
- isolation,
- kink,
- legend,
- libido,
- love story,
- lust for learning,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- Marchen,
- masquerade,
- megrim,
- mind,
- miracle,
- mirage,
- moon,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- need,
- negativism,
- nightmare,
- notion,
- nursery tale,
- originality,
- overcompensation,
- parable,
- passing fancy,
- passion,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- preoccupation,
- presence,
- prodigy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- quirk,
- rainbow,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- reverie,
- romance,
- science fiction,
- sexual desire,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shocker,
- sick fancy,
- sign,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- specter,
- stargaze,
- stargazing,
- stray,
- study,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suspense story,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thirst for knowledge,
- thriller,
- toy,
- trance,
- trip,
- urge,
- vagary,
- vapor,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- Walter Mitty,
- wander,
- want,
- wanting,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy,
- whodunit,
- wildest dream,
- wildest dreams,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- wonder,
- wonderwork,
- woolgathering,
- work of fiction,
- wraith