Meaning

That which comes from one's imagination..

Definitions by Sense

1. That which comes from one's imagination.
2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
3. A fantastical design.
4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
5. To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
6. To fantasize about something).
7. To conceive mentally; to imagine.
8. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

Example Sentences

Is not this something more than fantasy?

A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory.

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.

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.

Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.

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.

Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient.

Which he doth most fantasy.

Word Forms

• fantasies
• phantasie
• phantasy
• fantasying
• fantasied

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