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See also:Fantasy

English

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Etymology

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Nouninherited fromMiddle Englishfantasie, fromOld Frenchfantasie(“fantasy”), fromLatinphantasia(“imagination”), fromAncient Greekφαντασία(phantasía,“apparition”), fromφαντάζω(phantázō,“to render visible”), fromφαντός(phantós,“visible”), fromφαίνω(phaínō,“to make visible”); from the same root asφάος(pháos,“light”); ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti, from the root*bʰeh₂-(“to shine”).Doublet offancy,fantasia,phantasia, andphantasy.

Verb fromMiddle Englishfantasien, fromOld Frenchfantasier.Doublet offancy.

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Noun

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fantasy (countable anduncountable,pluralfantasies)

  1. That which comes from one'simagination.
    • c.1599–1602,William Shakespeare,Hamlet, London, act 1, scene 1:
      Is not this something more thanfantasy?
    • 1634,John Milton,Comus:
      A thousandfantasies / Begin to throng into my memory.
    • 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:
      The whole position was so tremendous and so absolutely unearthly, that I believe it actually lulled our sense of terror, but to this hour I often see it in my dreams, and at its merephantasy wake up covered with cold sweat.
    • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page92:
      Try as hard as it can, empirical science cannot come up with a naturalistic explanation; it can only slip intofantasies that make scientists feel good because they are in harmony with their opinions, prejudices, and unconscious assumptions about the nature of reality.
  2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes ofmagic and thesupernatural,imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
  3. Afantasticaldesign.
  4. (slang) The druggamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

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Translations

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that which comes from one's imagination
literary genre
fantastical design
slang: gamma-hydroxybutyric acid—see alsogamma-hydroxybutyric acid
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Verb

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fantasy (third-person singular simple presentfantasies,present participlefantasying,simple past and past participlefantasied)

  1. (transitive)
    1. Toconceive (something)mentally; toimagine.
    2. (literary, psychoanalysis) Tofantasize about something).
      • 2013, Mark J. Blechner,Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV:
        Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness hefantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To conceive mentally; to imagine.
    2. (obsolete) To have afancy for; to be pleased with; tolike.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishfantasy.Doublet offantasie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fantasy f

  1. (literature)fantasy(literary genre)

Declension

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This noun needs aninflection-table template.

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishfantasy.Doublet offantasi.

Noun

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fantasy

  1. (literature)fantasy (literary genre)

French

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FrenchWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediafr

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishfantasy.Doublet offantaisie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fantasy f (pluralfantasys)

  1. (literature)fantasy(literary genre)
    Hyponym:heroic fantasy

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian BokmålWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedianb

Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishfantasy.Doublet offantasi.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfæːn.tə.si/,/ˈfæːn.ta.si/

Noun

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fantasy m (definite singularfantasyen,indefinite pluralfantasyer,definite pluralfantasyene)

  1. (literature)fantasy(genre)

References

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Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishfantasy.Doublet offantazja.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fantasy n (indeclinable)

  1. fantasy(genre)

Adjective

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fantasy (notcomparable,no derived adverb)

  1. (relational)fantasy

Related terms

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adjectives
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Further reading

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  • fantasy inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fantasy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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