| Main Entry: |
fantasy |
| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
imagination, dream |
Synonyms: |
Atlantis, Utopia, air castle,
apparition,
appearance,
bubble*,
chimera, conceiving,
creativity,
daydream,
delusion, envisioning, externalizing,
fabrication, fairyland,
fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment,
flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise,
hallucination, head trip,
illusion, imaginativeness, imagining,
invention, mind trip,
mirage,
nightmare, objectifying,
originality,
rainbow*,
reverie,
trip,
vagary,
vision
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| Notes: |
fantasy is imagination unrestricted by reality; phantasm is a ghostly appearing figure or something existing in perception only |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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