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fan⋅ta⋅sy

  [fan-tuh-see, -zee] noun, plural -sies, verb, -sied, -sy⋅ing.
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–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.]
fan·ta·sy   (fān'tə-sē, -zē)   
n.   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.
    1. Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.
    2. 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.
  8. A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency.
  9. Obsolete A hallucination.
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, to appear; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Fantasy

Fan"ta*sy\, n.; pl. Fantasies. [See Fancy.]

1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak.

A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. --Milton.

2. Fantastic designs.

Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. --Hawthorne.

Fantasy

Fan"ta*sy\, v. t. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] --Cavendish.

Which he doth most fantasy. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
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Language Translation for : fantasy
Spanish: fantasía,
German: die Phantasie, Phantasie-…, auch Fantasy als Genre,
Japanese: 空想
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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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Main Entry: 1fan·ta·sy
Variant: also phan·ta·sy /'fant-&-sE, -zE/
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -sies
: the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need fantasy>;also : a mental image or a series of mental images (as a daydream) so created fantasies of adolescence>

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