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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, verb (used with an object) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] --Cavendish.
Which he doth most fantasy. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, noun; pl. {Fantasies}. [See {Fancy}.]
1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak.
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory. --Milton.
2. Fantastic designs.
Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. --Hawthorne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fantasy
noun
1: imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy" [syn: {phantasy}]
2: fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies" [syn: {phantasy}]
3: something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: {illusion}, {phantasy}, {fancy}] [also: {fantasied}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
230 Moby Thesaurus words for "fantasy": Marchen, Walter Mitty, Western, Western story, Westerner, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, adventure story, alienation, allegory, apologue, apparition, appearance, ardor, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, be absent, bedtime story, bemusement, bizarrerie, blame-shifting, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, brown study, bubble, capriccio, caprice, castle-building, chimera, compensation, conceit, conceiving, concoction, concupiscence, crank, craze, crazy idea, creativity, crotchet, curiosity, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, decompensation, defense mechanism, delirium, delusion, depth of thought, dereism, dereistic thinking, desideration, desire, detective story, displacement, dissociation, divagate, dream, dream of, dreaming, drive, eagerness, eidolon, emotional insulation, enchantment, engrossment, envisioning, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fable, fabliau, fad, fairy tale, fancy, fantasizing, fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasticism, fantasying, ferlie, fiction, figment, figure, fit of abstraction, flight, flight of fancy, flimflam, folk story, folktale, fool notion, form, freak, freak out, freakish inspiration, fumes of fancy, gest, ghost story, go woolgathering, grotesquerie, hallucination, harebrained idea, hope, horme, horse opera, humor, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, image, imagery, imagination, imaginativeness, imagining, insubstantial image, intellectual curiosity, invention, inventiveness, isolation, kink, legend, libido, love story, lust for learning, maggot, make-believe, masquerade, megrim, mind, miracle, mirage, moon, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, need, negativism, nightmare, notion, nursery tale, originality, overcompensation, parable, passing fancy, passion, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, pipe, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming, pleasure, pleasure principle, preoccupation, presence, prodigy, projection, psychotaxis, quirk, rainbow, rationalization, resistance, reverie, romance, science fiction, sexual desire, shade, shadow, shape, shocker, sick fancy, sign, sociological adjustive reactions, space fiction, space opera, specter, stargaze, stargazing, stray, study, sublimation, substitution, suspense story, thick-coming fancies, thirst for knowledge, thriller, toy, trance, trip, urge, vagary, vapor, vision, waking dream, wander, want, wanting, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whodunit, wildest dream, wildest dreams, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, wonder, wonderwork, woolgathering, work of fiction, wraith
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