fantasy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
literature
media
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor.
Latin phantasia
Old French fantasiebor.
Middle English fantasie
English fantasy
Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.
Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.
Inflected forms:
form: fantasies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phantasy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phantasie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fantasies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fantasying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fantasied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fantasied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: phantasy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phantasie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fantastical design.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
gloss: The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fantasize about something).
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To conceive mentally; to imagine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Which he doth most fantasy.
The kyng fantasied so much his daughter Anne that almost everything began to grow out of frame and good order
Related words: fantasize
cloud-cuckoo-land
Derived words: cyberfantasy
dark fantasy
docufantasy
epic fantasy
fantascience
fantasist
fantastic
fantasy baseball
fantasy collapse
fantasy cricket
fantasy football
fantasy land
fantasylike
fantasy of manners
fantasy sports
fantasywear
fantasy world
fantasy wrestling
fat fantasy
heroic fantasy
high fantasy
intrusion fantasy
low fantasy
nonfantasy
paleofantasy
power fantasy
restitutive fantasy
romantasy
science fantasy
stfantasy
stfsy
technofantasy
telefantasy
urban fantasy
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