fantastique
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fantastique (uncountable)
- (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
- 1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.
See also edit
- fantastique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phantastikós).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
fantastique (plural fantastiques)
- fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies)
- (film, literature) related to the fantastique genre.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- →⇒ Dutch: fantastisch
- Petjo: fantasties
- → Indonesian: fantastis
- →⇒ German: fantastisch
- → Romanian: fantastic
Noun edit
fantastique m (plural fantastiques)
- (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
Descendants edit
- → English: fantastique
Further reading edit
- “fantastique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.