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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
fantasy (noun)
1.
obsolete - hallucination
2.
- fancy , especially the free play of creative imagination
3.
a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived as
a) a fanciful design or invention
b) a chimerical or notion - fantastic
c) - fantasia
d) imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters - called also fantasy fiction
4.
- caprice
5.
the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need - an object of fantasy , also a mental image or a series of mental images (as a daydream) so created - sexual fantasies
6.
a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (as a government-in-exile)
fantasy (verb)
- fantasize
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
fantasy (noun)
1.
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
SYNONYMS:
chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm ( fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision
RELATED WORDS:
ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp; brainchild, idea; concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualization; cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia; daymare, nightmare
castle in Spain, castle in the air
NEAR ANTONYMS:
actuality, fact, reality
fantasy (noun)
2.
the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others
SYNONYMS:
contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy ( phantasy), ideation, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality
RELATED WORDS:
brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration; fecundity, fertility; ingenuity, resourcefulness; versatility; chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm ( fantasm), pipe dream; envisaging, visualization
NEAR ANTONYMS:
literality, literalness
fantasy (noun)
3.
something that is the product of the imagination
SYNONYMS:
fable, fabrication, fantasy ( phantasy), figment, invention
RELATED WORDS:
anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn; fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper; make-believe
NEAR ANTONYMS:
actuality, realness
fact, materiality, reality
fantasy (verb)
to form a mental picture of
SYNONYMS:
conceit, conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, image, picture, see, vision, visualize
RELATED WORDS:
daydream, stargaze; hallucinate; re-create, reflect, relive, reminisce; contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate; concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project; foresee, prefigure
Fantasy (Wikipedia)
This article is about the artistic genre. For other uses, see Fantasy (disambiguation).
"Fantasy fiction" redirects here. For the magazine, see Fantasy Fiction.

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or magical elements, often including completely imaginary realms and creatures.

Illustration "The Whirlwind Seizes the Wreath" (from the story "The Fairy Aurora")

The genre's roots lie in fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century onward, it has expanded into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animation, and video games.

The expression fantastic literature is often used for this genre by Anglophone literary critics. An archaic spelling for the term is phantasy.

Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by an absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these can occur in fantasy. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that reflect the actual Earth, but with some sense of otherness.

Fantasy (Wiktionary)

English

Alternative forms

  • phantasie (obsolete)
  • phantasy (dated)

Etymology

    Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible

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    Imagination, daydream, illusion, reverie, vision

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