Inflected forms: pl. fan·ta·sies 1. The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy. See synonyms at imagination. 2. Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy. 3. A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit. 4a. Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements. b. An example of such fiction. 5. An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need. 6. An unrealistic or improbable supposition. 7.Music See fantasia (sense 1). 8. A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency. 9.Obsolete A hallucination.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: fan·ta·sied, fan·ta·sy·ing, fan·ta·sies To imagine; visualize.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English fantasie, fantsy, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasi, appearance, imagination, from phantazesthai, to appear, from phantos, visible, from phainesthai, to appear. See bh-1 in Appendix I.
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