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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)

1. That which comes from one's imagination.
2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
3. A fantastical design.
4. (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)

1. (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
2. (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

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3. (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

See also

• cloud-cuckoo-land

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.

Noun

fantasy f

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.

Noun

fantasy f (plural fantasys)

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

Polish

Etymology

From English fantasy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan?ta.z?/

Noun

fantasy n (indeclinable)

1. (literature) fantasy (genre)

Adjective

fantasy (not comparable)

1. 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

English

Alternative forms

• fantasm
• phantasim (obsolete)
• phantasma

Etymology

A learned variant of phantom; from Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek ???????? (phántasma). Doublet of phantom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæntæz?m/
• Hyphenation: phan?tasm

Noun

phantasm (plural phantasms)

1. Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:

     He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.

2. (philosophy) A impression as received by the senses, especially an image, often prior to any interpretation by the intellect.

   Synonym: (less common) phantasia

Derived terms

• phantasmal
• phantasmic

Related terms

• fancy
• fantasize
• fantastic
• fantasy
• phantasmatic
• phantom

Further reading

• phantasm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• phantasm in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• phantasm at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• panthams