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fantasy

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English

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Etymology

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Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.

Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfæntəsi/, /ˈfæntəzi/
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Noun

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fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

  1. That which comes from one's imagination.
    • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, London, act 1, scene 1:
      Is not this something more than fantasy?
    • 1634, John Milton, Comus:
      A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →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 mere phantasy 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., page 92:
      Try as hard as it can, empirical science cannot come up with a naturalistic explanation; it can only slip into fantasies 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 of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
  3. A fantastical design.
  4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

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Translations

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Verb

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fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
    2. (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize 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 he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To conceive mentally; to imagine.
    2. (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.

Noun

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fantasy f

  1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

Declension

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasi.

Noun

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fantasy

  1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

French

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fantasy f (plural fantasys)

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

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasi.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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fantasy m (definite singular fantasyen, indefinite plural fantasyer, definite plural fantasyene)

  1. (literature) fantasy (genre)

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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantazja.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfan.ta.zɨ/, /fanˈta.zɨ/
  • Rhymes: -azɨ
  • Syllabification: fan‧ta‧sy

Noun

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fantasy n (indeclinable)

  1. fantasy (genre)

Adjective

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fantasy (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) fantasy
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Further reading

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