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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
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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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Word Origin & History

fantasia 
"musical composition that sounds extemporaneous," 1724, from It. fantasia, from L. phantasia (see fantasy).

fantasy 
c.1325, "illusory appearance," from O.Fr. fantasie, from L. phantasia, from Gk. phantasia "appearance, image, perception, imagination," from phantazesthai "picture to oneself," from phantos "visible," from phainesthai "appear," in late Gk. "to imagine, have visions," related to phaos, phos "light." Sense of "whimsical notion, illusion" is pre-1400, followed by that of "imagination," which is first attested 1539. Sense of "day-dream based on desires" is from 1926, as is fantasize.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2fantasy
Variant: also phantasy
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -sied; -sy·ing
: FANTASIZE
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Medical Dictionary

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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