fantasy

English

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Alternative forms

• phantasie (archaic)
• phantasy (chiefly dated)

Etymology

From Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasia, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantazō, “to show at the eye or the mind”), from φαίνω (phainō, “to show in light”), from the same root as ϕῶς (phôs, “light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfæntəˌsi/ or IPA: /ˈfæntəˌzi/

Noun

fantasy (plural fantasies)

1. That which comes from one's imagination
2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
3. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Related terms

• fantasize

Translations

Imagining

Catalan: fantasia (ca) f. Esperanto: fantazio (eo) Finnish: haaveilu (fi) French: fantasme (fr) m.

Japanese: 幻想 (げんそう, gensō), 空想 (くうそう, kūsō), ファンタジー (fantajī) Russian: фантазия (ru) (fantázija) f.

literary genre

Czech: fantasy (cs) f. Finnish: fantasia, fantasiakirjallisuus French: fantaisie (fr) f. German: Fantasie (de) f.

Greek: φαντασία (el) (fantasía) f., λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού (el) (logotechnía tou fantastikoú) f. Portuguese: Fantasia (pt) f. Russian: фантастика (ru) (fantástika) f.

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Chinese: 幻想 (huànxiǎng) Italian: fantasia f. Dutch: fantasie Hungarian: fantázia

Romanian: fantezie f. Indonesian: fantasi Portuguese: fantasia

Verb

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

1. (literary) To fantasize (about)

See also

• fancy

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Czech

Noun

fantasy f.

1. fantasy (literature) (literary genre)