| 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?" |
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