# fantasy

Pronunciation: say "FAN-tuh-see" /ˈfæntəsi/

## Noun

1. That which comes from a person's imagination rather than from real life.
   - Simple: Things that you imagine, not things that are real.
   - _The plan to get rich overnight was nothing but fantasy._
   - _Her paintings mix careful observation with pure fantasy._
2. The literary genre that deals with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds, and invented creatures.
   - Simple: A kind of story with magic, made-up worlds, and strange creatures.
   - _Tolkien's novels shaped modern fantasy for generations of writers._
   - _The publisher launched a new imprint devoted entirely to fantasy._
5. A design marked by fanciful, imaginative invention rather than realistic representation.
   - Simple: A design full of strange shapes that come from the imagination.
   - _The iron gate was pure fantasy, all curling vines and blossoms no garden ever grew._
   - _His sketchbooks run to fantasy, filling page after page with impossible architecture._
7. A slang name for the drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), a powerful depressant. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A street name for GHB, a dangerous drug that makes people very sleepy.
   - _Paramedics suspected the unconscious man had taken fantasy earlier that night._
   - _Dealers were selling fantasy in small vials outside the club._

## Verb

3. To conceive something mentally; to imagine it or form it in the mind.
   - Simple: To make a picture of something in your mind.
   - _As a child she would fantasy elaborate cities, drawing maps of streets that never existed._
   - _The inventor fantasied machines that no workshop of his time could build._
4. To engage in imagining; to conceive ideas and images in the mind.
   - Simple: To use your imagination and dream while you are awake.
   - _Left alone in the orchard, the poet would fantasy for hours._
   - _Sailors on long voyages often fantasy about the harbors waiting for them._
6. To fantasize about something, forming and dwelling on it in the imagination. *(literary)*
   - Simple: To imagine and enjoy thoughts of something that you want.
   - _In their letters, the lovers fantasy a quiet house they may never share._
   - _Throughout the long winter he fantasied an early spring and a full harvest._

## Verb

8. To have a fancy for something; to be pleased with it; to like it. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To like something or to be pleased with it.

## Origin

The noun came into Middle English from Old French "fantasie," from Latin "phantasia" ("imagination"), from Ancient Greek "phantasía" ("apparition"), ultimately from a root meaning "to shine" or "to make visible." It is a doublet of "fancy," "fantasia," and "phantasy," and the verb likewise comes through Middle English "fantasien" from Old French "fantasier."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/fantasy (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).