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fantasy
English
Alternative forms
- phantasie (archaic)
- phantasy (chiefly dated)
Etymology
From Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phantasía, “apparition”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fænt?si/, /?fænt?zi/
Noun
fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- A fantastical design.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
Derived terms
Related terms
- fantasize
Descendants
- ? Czech: fantasy
- ? French: fantasy
- ? German: Fantasy
- ? Malay: fantasi
- ? Polish: fantasy
- ? Swahili: fantasia
Translations
Verb
fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)
- (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
- (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cavendish to this entry?)
- (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.
See also
- cloud-cuckoo-land
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.
Noun
fantasy f
- (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.
Noun
fantasy f (plural fantasys)
- (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
Polish
Etymology
From English fantasy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fan?ta.z?/
Noun
fantasy n (indeclinable)
- (literature) fantasy (genre)
Adjective
fantasy (not comparable)
- fantastical (of or pertaining to fantasy)
Declension
Indeclinable.
Related terms
- (noun) fantastyka
- (noun phrase) fantastyka naukowa
- (adjectives) fantastyczny, fantastycznonaukowy
- (adverb) fantastycznie
Further reading
- fantasy in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- fantasy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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caprice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French caprice, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (“fright, sudden start”): capo (“head”), from Latin caput + riccio (“curly”), from Latin ?ricius (“hedgehog”), or from Italian capro (“goat”). Doublet of capriccio.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /k??p?is/
Noun
caprice (plural caprices)
- An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion; a whim.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A brief romance
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that a caprice lasts a little longer.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- After that we cast off all allegiance to immediate, tangible, and time-touched things, and entered a fantastic world of hushed unreality in which the narrow, ribbon-like road rose and fell and curved with an almost sentient and purposeful caprice amidst the tenantless green peaks and half-deserted valleys
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- A disposition to be impulsive.
- (music) A capriccio.
Related terms
- capricious
Translations
French
Etymology
From Italian capriccio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.p?is/
Noun
caprice m (plural caprices)
- whim; wish
- Synonym: lubie
- tantrum
Derived terms
- capricieux
Descendants
- ? Danish: kaprice
- ? English: caprice
- ? Romanian: capriciu
Further reading
- “caprice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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