fantasy
fantasy Lexical Profile
fantasy Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The faculty or activity of imagining impossible, improbable, or extravagant things.
"His elaborate plans for instant wealth were pure fantasy with no basis in economics."
A pleasant mental image or scenario created by the imagination to fulfill a conscious or unconscious wish.
"She often indulged in a quiet fantasy of retiring to a small cottage by the sea."
A genre of imaginative fiction, film, and art involving magic, supernatural phenomena, and imaginary worlds.
"Modern epic fantasy owes a significant literary debt to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien."
A musical composition of a free, improvisatory form not bound by strict structural conventions.
"The pianist opened the recital with a lesser-known fantasy in D minor by Mozart."
• adjective
Based on, characteristic of, or belonging to the genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and supernatural worlds.
"The author is best known for her sprawling fantasy novels set in a medieval kingdom."
Relating to or involving a competition in which participants assemble imaginary teams composed of real athletes and score points based on those athletes' actual statistical performances.
"He spent Sunday morning adjusting the lineup for his fantasy football league."
• verb
To imagine or conceive of something in a fanciful or daydreaming manner.
"As a child, he often fantasied that the woods behind his house were inhabited by dragons."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fantasie, via Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek phantasia ('appearance, image, perception'), derived from phantazein ('to make visible'). It shares the same root as 'fancy', which emerged in the 15th century as a contracted form of 'fantasy'.