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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

Etymology

From Latin vagus (“wandering”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, formerly) IPA^(key): /v?????i/
• (General American, now commonly) IPA^(key): /?ve????i/

Noun

vagary (plural vagaries)

1. An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies, ch. 8:

     It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
2. An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:whim

   • 1905, Jack London, War of the Classes, Preface:

     And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.

Derived terms

• vagarity
• vagarious

Related terms

• vague
• vagrant
• vagabond

Translations

See also

• vaguery

Anagrams

• Varyag