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fan⋅ta⋅sia

  [fan-tey-zhuh, -zhee-uh, fan-tuh-zee-uh]
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–noun
1. Music.
a. a composition in fanciful or irregular form or style.
b. a potpourri of well-known airs arranged with interludes and florid embellishments.
2. fantasy (def. 9).
3. something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque.
Origin:
1715–25; < It; see fantasy

fan⋅ta⋅sy

  [fan-tuh-see, -zee] noun, plural -sies, verb, -sied, -sy⋅ing.
–noun
1. imagination, esp. when extravagant and unrestrained.
2. the forming of mental images, esp. wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.
3. a mental image, esp. when unreal or fantastic; vision: a nightmare fantasy.
4. Psychology. an imagined or conjured up sequence fulfilling a psychological need; daydream.
5. a hallucination.
6. a supposition based on no solid foundation; visionary idea; illusion: dreams of Utopias and similar fantasies.
7. caprice; whim.
8. an ingenious or fanciful thought, design, or invention.
9. Also, fantasia. Literature. an imaginative or fanciful work, esp. one dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters: The stories of Poe are fantasies of horror.
10. Music. fantasia (def. 1).
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
11. to form mental images; imagine; fantasize.
12. Rare. to write or play fantasias.
Also, phantasy.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME fantasie imaginative faculty, mental image (< AF, OF) < L phantasia < Gk phantasía an idea, notion, image, lit., a making visible; see fantastic, -y 3

Synonyms:
1. See fancy.
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fan·ta·sia   (fān-tā'zhə, -zhē-ə, fān'tə-zē'ə)   
n.   Music
  1. A free composition structured according to the composer's fancy. Also called fantasy.
  2. A medley of familiar themes, with variations and interludes.

[Italian, from Latin phantasia, fantasy; see fantasy.]
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Fantasia

Fan*ta"si*a\, n. [It. See Fancy.] (Mus.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Fantasia
Spanish: fantasía, imaginación,
German: die Phantasie,
Japanese: 空想
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fantasia 
"musical composition that sounds extemporaneous," 1724, from It. fantasia, from L. phantasia (see fantasy).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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