different between fancier vs fantast

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fancy +? -er

fancier

fancier (plural fanciers)

One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something.
Synonym: aficionado
She's definitely a cat fancier: she has nine of them in her home and the walls are covered with pictures of more.
A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.
One who fancies or imagines.

fantast (plural fantasts)

(archaic) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful.
- 1804, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors
  He is indeed all this; and what he has more than all this peculiar to himself, I seem to convey to my own mind in some measure by saying, — that he is a quiet and sublime enthusiast with a strong tinge of the fantast, — the humourist constantly mingling with, and flashing across, the philosopher, as the darting colours in shot silk play upon the main dye.

fantast m or f (plural fantasten, diminutive fastastje n)

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