fantasy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   imagination unrestricted by reality

   a schoolgirl fantasy

2. 2
   noun

   That which comes from one's imagination.

   Is not this something more than fantasy?

3. 3
   noun

   A fantastical design.

   Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.

4. 4
   verb

   To fantasize about something).

   Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.

5. 5
   verb

   To conceive mentally; to imagine.

   Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient.

6. 6
   verb

   To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

   Which he doth most fantasy.

7. 7
   noun

   something many people believe that is false

8. 8
   noun

   fiction with a large amount of imagination in it

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor. Latin phantasia Old French fantasiebor. Middle English fantasie English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imag…