[fan-tey-zhuh, -zhee-uh, fan-tuh-zee-uh] 
| 1. | Music.
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| 2. | fantasy (def. 9). |
| 3. | something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque. |
[fan-tuh-see, -zee] noun, plural -sies, verb, -sied, -sy⋅ing.| 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). |
| 11. | to form mental images; imagine; fantasize. |
| 12. | Rare. to write or play fantasias. |
| fan·ta·sia (fān-tā'zhə, -zhē-ə, fān'tə-zē'ə) n. Music
[Italian, from Latin phantasia, fantasy; see fantasy.] |
fantasy fan·ta·sy (fān'tə-sē, -zē)
n.
Imagery that is more or less coherent, as in dreams and daydreams, yet unrestricted by reality. Also called phantasia.
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