| fantasy | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. fantasy, phantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality.; "a schoolgirl fantasy" |
| ~ imagination, imaginativeness, vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" |
| ~ pipe dream, dream | a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe).; "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" |
| ~ fantasy life, phantasy life | an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world. |
| ~ fairyland, fantasy world, phantasy world | something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality). |
| n. (communication) | 2. fantasy, phantasy | fiction with a large amount of imagination in it.; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies" |
| ~ fiction | a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact. |
| ~ science fiction | literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. fancy, fantasy, illusion, phantasy | something many people believe that is false.; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" |
| ~ misconception | an incorrect conception. |
| ~ bubble | an impracticable and illusory idea.; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble" |
| ~ ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp | an illusion that misleads. |
| ~ wishful thinking | the illusion that what you wish for is actually true. |
| v. (creation) | 4. fantasise, fantasize, fantasy | indulge in fantasies.; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" |
| ~ conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" |
| pipe dream | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. dream, pipe dream | a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe).; "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" |
| ~ fantasy, phantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality.; "a schoolgirl fantasy" |
| wishful thinking | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. wishful thinking | the illusion that what you wish for is actually true. |
| ~ fancy, phantasy, illusion, fantasy | something many people believe that is false.; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" |
| envy | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. enviousness, envy | a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another. |
| ~ bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment, gall | a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. |
| ~ covetousness | an envious eagerness to possess something. |
| ~ green-eyed monster, jealousy | a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival). |
| ~ penis envy | (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity. |
| n. (act) | 2. envy, invidia | spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins). |
| ~ deadly sin, mortal sin | an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace.; "theologians list seven mortal sins" |
| v. (emotion) | 3. envy | feel envious towards; admire enviously. |
| ~ admire, look up to | feel admiration for. |
| v. (emotion) | 4. begrudge, envy | be envious of; set one's heart on. |
| ~ desire, want | feel or have a desire for; want strongly.; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" |
| ~ covet | wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person).; "She covets her sister's house" |
| yen | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. hankering, yen | a yearning for something or to do something. |
| ~ longing, yearning, hungriness | prolonged unfulfilled desire or need. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. yen | the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen. |
| ~ sen | a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel. |
| ~ japanese monetary unit | monetary unit in Japan. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. ache, languish, pine, yearn, yen | have a desire for something or someone who is not present.; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" |
| ~ die | languish as with love or desire.; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave" |
| ~ hanker, long, yearn | desire strongly or persistently. |
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