fantasy

fan-ta-sy · noun, verb

imported

Definitions

noun, verb

  1. 1.

    The faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.

  2. 2.

    To imagine or daydream about something desired.

  3. 3.

    An idea with no basis in reality; a daydream about something desired.

  4. 4.

    A genre of imaginative fiction involving magical or supernatural elements.

  5. 5.

    A musical composition with a free form and an improvisatory style.

Forms

plural: fantasies

Phrases & expressions

  • •
    fantasy world — An imaginary realm; also used to describe someone out of touch with reality
  • •
    fantasy football/sports — Games where participants create imaginary teams of real players
  • •
    live in a fantasy — To be unrealistic or deluded

Related words

Antonyms: fact, reality, truth
See also: dream, fantastic, imagination
Synonyms: daydream, dream, illusion, imagination

Etymology

From Greek phantasia ("imagination, appearance, image"), from phantazein ("to make visible"), from phainein ("to show"). The word entered English through Old French fantasie in the 14th century.