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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

phantasie (archaic)
phantasy (chiefly dated)

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈfæntəsi/

Noun[edit]

fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

That which comes from one’s imagination.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  
  The whole position was so tremendous and so absolutely unearthly, that I believe it actually lulled our sense of terror, but to this hour I often see it in my dreams, and at its mere phantasy wake up covered with cold sweat.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 92:
  
  Try as hard as it can, empirical science cannot come up with a naturalistic explanation; it can only slip into fantasies that make scientists feel good because they are in harmony with their opinions, prejudices, and unconscious assumptions about the nature of reality.
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
A fantastical design.
(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Derived terms[edit]

dark fantasy
fantasy baseball
fantasy collapse
fantasy cricket
fantasy football
fantasy land
fantasy of manners
fantasy sports
fantasy wrestling
fat fantasy
high fantasy
intrusion fantasy
low fantasy
restitutive fantasy
science fantasy

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fantasize

Descendants[edit]

→ Armenian: ֆենտեզի (fentezi)
→ Belarusian: фэнтэзі (fentezi)
→ Bulgarian: фентъзи (fentǎzi)
→ Czech: fantasy
→ Dutch: fantasy
→ French: fantasy
→ Georgian: ფენტეზი (penṭezi)
→ German: Fantasy
→ Hindi: फँतासी (phãtāsī)
→ Italian: fantasy
→ Korean: 판타지 (pantaji)
→ Malay: fantasi
→ Norwegian Bokmål: fantasy
→ Polish: fantasy
→ Russian: фэнтези (fɛntezi)
→ Swahili: fantasia
→ Swedish: fantasy
→ Ukrainian: фентезі (fentezi)

Translations[edit]

that which comes from one’s imagination

Arabic: خَيَال‎ (ar) m (ḵayāl)
Armenian: երևակայություն (hy) (erewakayutʿyun), ֆանտազիա (hy) (fantazia)
Belarusian: фанта́зія f (fantázija), выабражэ́нне n (vyabražénnje), уяўле́нне (be) n (ujaŭljénnje), вы́мысел m (výmysjel)
Bulgarian: въображе́ние (bg) n (vǎobražénie), фанта́зия (bg) f (fantázija)
Catalan: fantasia (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 幻想 (zh) (huànxiǎng), 空想 (zh) (kōngxiǎng)
Czech: fantazie (cs) f, výmysl m
Danish: fantasi c
Dutch: fantasie (nl)
Esperanto: fantazio (eo)
Finnish: kuvittelu (fi), kuvitelma (fi), mielikuva (fi)
French: fantaisie (fr) f, imaginaire (fr) m, fantasme (fr) m
German: Fantasie (de) f
Hindi: कल्पना (hi) f (kalpanā)
Hungarian: agyszülemény (hu), fantázia (hu)
Ido: fantazio (io)
Italian: fantasia (it) f
Japanese: 幻想 (ja) (げんそう, gensō), 空想 (ja) (くうそう, kūsō), ファンタジー (fantajī), 狂想 (kyōsō)
Kazakh: қиял (qiäl)
Korean: 환상(幻想) (ko) (hwansang), 공상 (ko) (gongsang), 상상 (ko) (sangsang), 판타지 (ko) (pantaji)
Kyrgyz: кыял (kıyal)
Latin: somnium n
Persian: فانتزی‎ (fa) (fântezi), خیال‌‎ (xeyâl)
Polish: fantazja (pl) f, wyobraźnia (pl) f, wymysł (pl) m
Portuguese: fantasia (pt) f
Romanian: fantezie (ro) f
Russian: фанта́зия (ru) f (fantázija), воображе́ние (ru) n (voobražénije), вы́мысел (ru) m (výmysel)
Slovak: fantázia f, predstava f
Slovene: fantazija f
Spanish: fantasia f
Swedish: fantasi (sv) c
Tajik: хаёл (xayol)
Thai: ความเพ้อฝัน (th), การฝันเฟื่อง
Turkish: hayal (tr)
Ukrainian: фанта́зія f (fantázija), уя́ва f (ujáva), уя́влення (uk) n (ujávlennja), ви́мисел m (výmysel), ви́гадка f (výhadka), ви́гад m (výhad)
Uzbek: xayol (uz), fantaziya (uz)

literary genre

Albanian: fantazi (sq) f
Arabic: فَنْتَازِيَا‎ f (fantāziyā)
Armenian: ֆենտեզի (hy) (fentezi), ֆանտաստիկա (hy) (fantastika)
Belarusian: фэ́нтэзі f (féntezi), фанта́стыка f (fantástyka)
Bulgarian: фе́нтъзи n (féntǎzi)
Catalan: fantasia (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 奇幻 (zh) (qíhuàn)
Czech: fantasy (cs) f
Dutch: fantasy (nl)
Finnish: fantasia (fi), fantasiakirjallisuus
French: fantaisie (fr) f, fantasy (fr) f
Georgian: ფენტეზი (penṭezi), ფანტასტიკა (panṭasṭiḳa)
German: Fantasy (de) f
Greek: φαντασία (el) f (fantasía), λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού f (logotechnía tou fantastikoú)
Hindi: फँतासी f (phãtāsī)
Italian: fantasy (it) m
Japanese: ファンタジー (fantajī)
Korean: 판타지 (ko) (pantaji)
Persian: فانتزی‎ (fa) (fântezi)
Polish: fantasy (pl) n
Portuguese: fantasia (pt) f
Romanian: literatură fantastică (ro) f
Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika), фэ́нтези (ru) n (fɛ́ntɛzi)
Slovene: fantastika f, fantazija f
Swahili: fantasia
Swedish: fantasy (sv)
Thai: แฟนตาซี, จินตนิมิต
Ukrainian: фе́нтезі n (féntezi), фанта́стика f (fantástyka)

Finnish: gamma (fi)

Verb[edit]

fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)

(literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
- 2013, Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV:
  
  Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
- 1641, George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe
  
  The kyng fantasied so much his daughter Anne that almost everything began to grow out of frame and good order
- 1518, Thomas More; Robynson, transl., Utopia, published 1551:
  
  Which he doth most fantasy.
(transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

Czech[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.

Noun[edit]

fantasy f

(literature) fantasy (literary genre)

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.ta.zi/

Noun[edit]

fantasy f (plural fantasys)

(literature) fantasy (literary genre)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasi.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈfæːn.tə.si/, /ˈfæːn.ta.si/

Noun[edit]

fantasy m (definite singular fantasyen, indefinite plural fantasyer, definite plural fantasyene)

(literature) fantasy (genre)

References[edit]

“fantasy” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“fantasy” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy, from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), from φαντάζω (phantázō), from φαντός (phantós), from φαίνω (phaínō), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂-. Doublet of fantastyczny, fantastyka, and fantazja.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈfan.ta.zɨ/, /fanˈta.zɨ/
Rhymes: -azɨ
Syllabification: fan‧ta‧sy

Noun[edit]

fantasy n (indeclinable)

(literature) fantasy (genre)

Adjective[edit]

fantasy (not comparable)

(relational) fantasy

Declension[edit]

Indeclinable.

[edit]

fantastycznonaukowy
fantastyczny

fantastycznie

fantastyka

fantastyka naukowa

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Словосочетания

creatures of fantasy — создания, порождённые фантазией
childhood fantasy — детская фантазия
sexual fantasy — сексуальная фантазия
to act out a fantasy — фантазировать
to indulge in fantasy — предаваться фантазиям
to live in a world of fantasy / fantasy world — жить в мире иллюзий
creative fantasy — креативное воображение; творческая фантазия
delusion-like fantasy — бредоподобная фантазия
what do you fantasy for your dinner? — что бы ты съел на обед?
fantasy fiction — литература в жанре фэнтези

Примеры с переводом

He lives in a fantasy world.

Он живёт в мире фантазий.

Her fantasy is to be a film star.

Ей взбрело в голову стать кинозвездой.

I spent my summer reading fantasies.

Я провёл лето, читая фантастику.

The story is a magical mix of fantasy and reality.

Этот рассказ представляет собой феерическую смесь фантазии и реальности.

You’re old enough to distinguish between fact and fantasy.

Ты достаточно взрослая, чтобы различать действительность / реальность и фантазию.

She finds it difficult to separate fact from fantasy.

Ей кажется сложным отличать факты от вымысла.

The old wizard who introduces the young naïf to a life of adventure is one of the most overworked tropes in fantasy literature.

Старый волшебник, который знакомит наивных юношей с жизнью, полной приключений, является одним из самых затасканных типажей жанра фэнтези.

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His plans are pure fantasy.

His plans are just fantasies.

I was weaned on a diet of Hollywood fantasy.

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Возможные однокоренные слова

fantasize — фантазировать
fantasied — обладающий живым воображением, воображаемый, созданный воображением
fantasist — фантаст, фантазер, сказочник

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): fantasy
мн. ч.(plural): fantasies

Источник

fantasied

The past tense of fantasy is fantasied

Table Of Contents:

fantasied
The Forms of Fantasy
Conjugate Fantasy
Fantasy in Present Simple (Indefinite) Tense
Fantasy in Present Continuous (Progressive) Tense
Fantasy in Present Perfect Tense
Fantasy in Present Perfect Continuous Tense
Fantasy in Past Simple (Indefinite) Tense
Fantasy in Past Continuous (Progressive) Tense
Fantasy in Past Perfect Tense
Fantasy in Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Fantasy in Future Simple (Indefinite) Tense
Fantasy in Future Continuous (Progressive) Tense
Fantasy in Future Perfect Tense
Fantasy in Future Perfect Continuous Tense

The Forms of Fantasy

Infinitive	to fantasy
Present Tense	fantasy / fantasies
Past Tense	fantasied
Present Participle	fantasying
Past Participle	fantasied

Fantasy in Present Simple (Indefinite) Tense

Singular	Plural
I fantasy	We fantasy
You fantasy	You fantasy
He/She/It fantasies	They fantasy

Fantasy in Present Continuous (Progressive) Tense

Singular	Plural
I am fantasying	We are fantasying
You are fantasying	You are fantasying
He/She/It is fantasying	They are fantasying

Fantasy in Present Perfect Tense

Singular	Plural
I have fantasied	We have fantasied
You have fantasied	You have fantasied
He/She/It has fantasied	They have fantasied

Fantasy in Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Singular	Plural
I have been fantasying	We have been fantasying
You have been fantasying	You have been fantasying
He/She/It has been fantasying	They have been fantasying

Fantasy in Past Simple (Indefinite) Tense

Singular	Plural
I fantasied	We fantasied
You fantasied	You fantasied
He/She/It fantasied	They fantasied

Fantasy in Past Continuous (Progressive) Tense

Singular	Plural
I was fantasying	We were fantasying
You were fantasying	You were fantasying
He/She/It was fantasying	They were fantasying

Fantasy in Past Perfect Tense

Singular	Plural
I had fantasied	We had fantasied
You had fantasied	You had fantasied
He/She/It had fantasied	They had fantasied

Fantasy in Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Singular	Plural
I had been fantasying	We had been fantasying
You had been fantasying	You had been fantasying
He/She/It had been fantasying	They had been fantasying

Fantasy in Future Simple (Indefinite) Tense

Singular	Plural
I will fantasy	We will fantasy
You will fantasy	You will fantasy
He/She/It will fantasy	They will fantasy

Fantasy in Future Continuous (Progressive) Tense

Singular	Plural
I will be fantasying	We will be fantasying
You will be fantasying	You will be fantasying
He/She/It will be fantasying	They will be fantasying

Fantasy in Future Perfect Tense

Singular	Plural
I will have fantasied	We will have fantasied
You will have fantasied	You will have fantasied
He/She/It will have fantasied	They will have fantasied

Fantasy in Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Singular	Plural
I will have been fantasying	We will have been fantasying
You will have been fantasying	You will have been fantasying
He/She/It will have been fantasying	They will have been fantasying

Источник

fan·ta·sy

(făn′tə-sē, -zē)

n. pl. fan·ta·sies

1. The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.

2. Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.

3. A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.

a. A genre of fiction or other artistic work characterized by fanciful or supernatural elements.

b. A work of this genre.

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.

8. A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency.

9. Obsolete A hallucination.

adj.

Relating to or being a game in which participants act as owners of imaginary sports teams whose personnel consists of actual players selected from a professional sports league and team performance is determined by the combined statistics of the players.

tr.v. fan·ta·sied, fan·ta·sy·ing, fan·ta·sies

To imagine; visualize.

[Middle English fantasie, fantsy, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasiā, appearance, imagination, from phantazesthai, to appear, from phantos, visible, from phainesthai, phan-, to appear, passive of phainein, to show; see bhā- in Indo-European roots.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

fantasy

(ˈfæntəsɪ) or

phantasy

n, pl -sies

a. imagination unrestricted by reality

b. (as modifier): a fantasy world.

2. a creation of the imagination, esp a weird or bizarre one

3. (Psychology) psychol

a. a series of pleasing mental images, usually serving to fulfil a need not gratified in reality

b. the activity of forming such images

4. a whimsical or far-fetched notion

5. an illusion, hallucination, or phantom

6. a highly elaborate imaginative design or creation

8. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms)

a. literature having a large fantasy content

b. a prose or dramatic composition of this type

9. (modifier) of or relating to a competition, often in a newspaper, in which a participant selects players for an imaginary ideal team, and points are awarded according to the actual performances of the chosen players: fantasy football.

vb, -sies, -sying or -sied

[C14 fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantazein to make visible]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

fan•ta•sy

or phan•ta•sy

(ˈfæn tə si, -zi)

n., pl. -sies, n.

1. imagination, esp. when extravagant and unrestrained.

2. the forming of mental images, esp. wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.

3. the succession of mental images thus formed.

4. an imagined or conjured up sequence of events, esp. one provoked by an unfulfilled psychological need.

5. an abnormal or bizarre sequence of mental images, as a hallucination.

6. a supposition based on no solid foundation; illusion.

7. caprice; whim.

8. an imaginative or fanciful creation; intricate, elaborate, or whimiscal design.

9. a form of fiction based on imaginative or fanciful characters and premises.

v.i.

11. to form mental images; imagine; fantasize.

12. to write or play fantasias.

v.t.

13. to form mental images of; create in the mind.

[1275–1325; Middle English: imaginative faculty < Latin phantasia < Greek phantasía idea, notion]

fantasy

Past participle: fantasied
Gerund: fantasying

Imperative
fantasy
fantasy

Present
I fantasy
you fantasy
he/she/it fantasies
we fantasy
you fantasy
they fantasy

Preterite
I fantasied
you fantasied
he/she/it fantasied
we fantasied
you fantasied
they fantasied

Present Continuous
I am fantasying
you are fantasying
he/she/it is fantasying
we are fantasying
you are fantasying
they are fantasying

Present Perfect
I have fantasied
you have fantasied
he/she/it has fantasied
we have fantasied
you have fantasied
they have fantasied

Past Continuous
I was fantasying
you were fantasying
he/she/it was fantasying
we were fantasying
you were fantasying
they were fantasying

Past Perfect
I had fantasied
you had fantasied
he/she/it had fantasied
we had fantasied
you had fantasied
they had fantasied

Future
I will fantasy
you will fantasy
he/she/it will fantasy
we will fantasy
you will fantasy
they will fantasy

Future Perfect
I will have fantasied
you will have fantasied
he/she/it will have fantasied
we will have fantasied
you will have fantasied
they will have fantasied

Future Continuous
I will be fantasying
you will be fantasying
he/she/it will be fantasying
we will be fantasying
you will be fantasying
they will be fantasying

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been fantasying
you have been fantasying
he/she/it has been fantasying
we have been fantasying
you have been fantasying
they have been fantasying

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been fantasying
you will have been fantasying
he/she/it will have been fantasying
we will have been fantasying
you will have been fantasying
they will have been fantasying

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been fantasying
you had been fantasying
he/she/it had been fantasying
we had been fantasying
you had been fantasying
they had been fantasying

Conditional
I would fantasy
you would fantasy
he/she/it would fantasy
we would fantasy
you would fantasy
they would fantasy

Past Conditional
I would have fantasied
you would have fantasied
he/she/it would have fantasied
we would have fantasied
you would have fantasied
they would have fantasied

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

fantasy

A story involving things or happenings not known in real life.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	fantasy — imagination unrestricted by reality; «a schoolgirl fantasy» phantasy imagination, imaginativeness, vision — the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; «popular imagination created a world of demons»; «imagination reveals what the world could be» pipe dream, dream — a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); «I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe» 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)
	2.	fantasy — fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; «she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies» phantasy fiction — a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact science fiction — literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
	3.	fantasy — something many people believe that is false; «they have the illusion that I am very wealthy» fancy, phantasy, illusion misconception — an incorrect conception bubble — an impracticable and illusory idea; «he didn’t want to burst the newcomer’s bubble» ignis fatuus, will-o’-the-wisp — an illusion that misleads wishful thinking — the illusion that what you wish for is actually true
Verb	1.	fantasy — indulge in fantasies; «he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company» fantasise, fantasize conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine — form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; «Can you conceive of him as the president?»

fantasy

phantasy (Archaic)

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

fantasy

also phantasy
noun

1. The power of the mind to form images:

2. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea:

3. A fantastic, impracticable plan or desire:

4. An illusory mental image:

Translations

خَيال، تَوَهُّم

fantaziepředstava

fantasifantasi-

fantázia

draumórar; ímyndun, hugarburîur

fantazijaneįtikėtinaineįtikėtinas

fantāzijafantāzijas-

sanjarija

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fantasy

[ˈfæntəsi]

(= imaginary work) (film, story) → fantaisie f

modif

(= dream, ideal) [holiday] → de rêve

(= fantastical) [film, novel] → fantastique
to live in a fantasy world → vivre dans un monde imaginairefantasy football n → jeu m de l’entraîneur jeu dans lequel chaque participant constitue son équipe de football idéale avec des joueurs existants, les points étant marqués en fonction des performances réelles des joueurs choisis au cours de la saison

fantasy

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fantasy

(ˈfӕntəsi) – plural ˈfantasies – noun

an imaginary (especially not realistic) scene, story etc. He was always having fantasies about becoming rich and famous; (also adjective) He lived in a fantasy world.

fantastic (fӕnˈtӕstik) adjective

1. unbelievable and like a fantasy. She told me some fantastic story about her father being a Grand Duke!

2. wonderful; very good. You look fantastic!

fanˈtastically adverb

fan·ta·sy

n. fantasía, uso de la imaginación para transformar una realidad desagradable en una experiencia satisfactoria.

fantasy

n (pl -sies) fantasía

Источник

Other forms: fantasies; fantasied; fantasying

A fantasy is something you imagine, which might involve dragons, unicorns, or an imaginary best friend. If you live in a fantasy world, you’re not worrying much about reality — pleasant, maybe, but not very practical.

Fantasy is dreams and imagination. In a football fantasy league, you can create your own dream team. In literature, fantasy — a genre similar to science fiction — might include a story about a three-headed squirrel and a bionic aardvark who fall in love on a planet made entirely of strawberries. Romance can be fantasy, too, according to a Billy Joel song: «It’s just a fantasy. It’s not the real thing. But sometimes a fantasy is all you need.»

Definitions of fantasy

noun

imagination unrestricted by reality

“a schoolgirl
fantasy”

synonyms:

phantasy
noun

fiction with a large amount of imagination in it

“she made a lot of money writing romantic
fantasies”

synonyms:

phantasy

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types:

science fiction

literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society

cyberpunk

a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies

type of:

fiction

a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
noun

something many people believe that is false
verb

indulge in fantasies

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: the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need

also

: a mental image or a series of mental images (such as a daydream) so created

: a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: such as

: a chimerical or fantastic notion

His plans are pure fantasy.

: imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters

spent the summer reading fantasy

called also
fantasy fiction

: a fanciful design or invention

a fantasy of delicate tracery

: fancy

especially

: the free play of creative imagination

: caprice

served to fulfill the king’s fantasies

often attributive

: a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (such as a government-in-exile)

: of, relating to, or being a game in which participants create and manage imaginary teams consisting of players from a particular sport and scoring is based on the statistical performances of the actual players

fantasy football/baseball/basketball

The draft is the best part of being part of a fantasy league. … You get to choose the players you like and want to watch and help you win.—Lawrence Doto

Paula [Knoy] knows how to sacrifice for her fantasy team, even passing up a player like Eli Manning from her favorite New York Giants for a higher scoring quarterback.—Ruby Thomas

transitive + intransitive

: fantasize

fantasies her ideal future

Anyone who has bought a Lotto ticket has probably fantasied about all the amazing places they will go as soon as their numbers come tumbling out of the barrel.—Conor Pope

While growing up, most Disney fans have fantasied about being their favorite princess, prince or Disney character …—Carolina Brigagao

Synonyms

Example Sentences

Noun

His plans are pure fantasy.

He can hardly tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

His plans are just fantasies.

Her fantasy is to be a film star.

His plans are the product of pure fantasy.

I spent my summer reading fantasies.

Verb

She regularly fantasied the moment of celebration after winning the gold medal.

Recent Examples on the Web

Dungeons & Dragons has inspired decades’ worth of art and storytelling, providing fertile ground for epic works of high fantasy and serving as major inspiration for one of the biggest TV phenomena of the 21st Century, Stranger Things.

—Philip Ellis, Men’s Health, 7 Apr. 2023

Based on Luke Pearson’s graphic novels, Hilda follows a young girl’s adventures through a fantasy world that combines the gonzo creativity of Adventure Time with the gentle, dreamlike atmosphere of Studio Ghibli’s strongest works.

—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023

Both she and Josh Groban’s title character inhabit fantasy worlds — she of a loving husband and successful business, him in the past with his beautiful Lucy.

—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023

These stories revolve around the narrator and two characters—Father, an alternately terrifying and pitiable figure, and Adela, the family maid, who is the focus of masochistic fantasy.

—Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023

Bogart had an awesome faith in his artists, notably Kiss, the band that turned heavy metal into a down-and-dirty spectacle of lusty carnival teenage fantasy, and Donna Summer, whose ecstatic virtuosity fueled the disco revolution.

—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023

Expect lots of fantasy action violence, including sword/crossbow/fist fighting, poisoning, and magical battles that instantly injure or even kill.

—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023

This gives Elgin a chance to tell his tragic backstory in hopes of winning the parole board’s sympathy—and, not coincidentally, giving the audience an amusing narrative introduction to this fantasy world.

—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023

Among Thieves is set in a fantasy D&D world.

—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023

All of these accidents, some less happy than others, led to what is now Hollywood’s biggest non-fantasy action series.

—Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 22 June 2021

Martin’s initial brilliance was to begin A Song of Ice and Fire as a kind of post-fantasy, where characters remember magic as a bygone possibility.

—Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2021

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Further Reading Ars Technica’s best video games of 2017
If the two of you are already fantasy role-playing veterans, try Divinity: Original Sin 2.

—Valentina Palladino And Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2020

Injury concerns will continue to haunt him, but Cook (and his handcuff) will be fantasy gold for those with an early pick in 2020 drafts.

—Tony Holm, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019

Allison was coming into his own during the 2018 season before suffering a season-ending injury, and now may find himself in position to be fantasy relevant again.

—John Romero, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019

In most fantasy league setups, pass-rushing 3-4 OLBs like Khalil Mack and Von Miller are hugely devalued compared with linebackers who play in the middle.

—Ross Miles, Sports Illustrated, 21 June 2019

The rankings reflect overall fantasy value in a standard 12-team, point-per-reception (PPR) league.

—Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019

There’s also a third Ameobi brother somewhere posing the very real and definitely not fantasy notion of the world’s first three-man fraternal management team.

—SI.com, 19 July 2019

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Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English fantasie, fantsy, fansey «the imagination as a faculty, mental image produced by this faculty, deluded notion, figment of the imagination, preference directed by caprice rather than reason, liking,» borrowed from Anglo-French fantasie «imagination as a faculty, figment of the imagination, dizziness,» borrowed from Late Latin phantasia «imagination as a faculty, mental image of something perceived physically, image evoked by a poet or orator, a thing imagined by someone sleeping or ill, delusion,» going back to Latin, «imagined situation or experience,» borrowed from Greek phantasía «appearance, presentation to consciousness (whether immediate or in memory), image, imagination as a faculty, imagery,» noun derivative corresponding to phantázein «to make visible, present to the eye or mind, (middle voice) place before one’s mind, picture to oneself, imagine,» causative verb from phantós «visible,» verbal adjective of phaínō, phaínein (active voice) «to bring to light, cause to appear,» and phaínomai, phaínesthai (middle voice) «to become visible, come to light, appear,» going back to *phan-i̯e/o-, thematized from Indo-European *b^h-né-h₂-/b^h-n̥-h₂— (whence also Armenian banam «(I) open, reveal»), nasal present from *b^heh₂— «shine, give light, appear,» whence Sanskrit bhā́ti «(it) shines, beams,» Avestan fra-uuāiti «(it) beams forth»; the verb is allied to nominal derivatives in -n-, as Germanic *bōnjan- (whence Old English bōn «ornament,» gebōned «ornamented,» Middle Dutch boenen «to scrub, polish»), Old Irish bán «white, fair, bright,» Tocharian B peñiyo «splendor,» Sanskrit bhānú- «light, beam, brilliance, appearance,» Avestan bānu- «beam of light»

Note:
Compare fancy entry 2, in Middle English a rare variant of fantasie; the two split from each other in early Modern English, so that fancy entry 2 and fantasy now differ in meaning and construction. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a not infrequent sense, usually with the spelling phantasy, was «the formation of images or representations in direct perception or in memory,» more or less following the Greek meaning. — Regarding the relation of *b^heh₂— «shine, give light, appear» to the homonymous base *b^heh₂— «speak, say,» see the note at ban entry 1.

Adjective

from attributive use of fantasy entry 1

Verb

Middle English fantasien, fantesien, fancyen «to plan, devise, create, form (an idea), imagine (something false), desire» — more at fancy entry 1

Note:
The word was originally a variant of fancy entry 1, which, together with the more recent derivative fantasize, has in large part supplanted it.

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 6

Adjective

1984, in the meaning defined above

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of fantasy was
in the 14th century

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“Fantasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantasy. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.

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