fantasy

English

Alternative forms

• phantasie (archaic)
• phantasy (chiefly dated)

Etymology

From Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), originally from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈfæntəsi/, /ˈfæntəzi/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈfæntəsi/, [ˈfæntɪ̈si], [ˈfæɾ̃ɪ̈si]
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Noun

fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

1. That which comes from one's imagination.
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.

Related terms

• fantasize

Derived terms

• fantasy football
• fantasy baseball
• fantasy wrestling
• high fantasy
• low fantasy

Translations

imagining

• Bulgarian: въображение (bg) n (vǎobražénie), фантазия (bg) f (fantázija)
• Catalan: fantasia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幻想 (zh) (huànxiǎng)

• Dutch: fantasie (nl)
• Esperanto: fantazio (eo)
• Finnish: haaveilu (fi)
• French: fantasme (fr) m
• German: Fantasie (de) f
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• Hungarian: agyszülemény (hu), fantázia (hu)
• Italian: fantasia (it) f
• Japanese: 幻想 (ja) (げんそう, gensō), 空想 (ja) (くうそう, kūsō), ファンタジー (fantajī), 狂想 (kyōsō)
• Latin: somnium n
• Persian: فانتزی (fa) (fântezi)
• Portuguese: fantasia (pt) f
• Romanian: fantezie (ro) f
• Russian: фанта́зия (ru) f (fantázija), воображе́ние (ru) n (voobražénije)
• Swedish: fantasi (sv) c

literary genre

• Bulgarian: фентази n (féntazi)
• Catalan: fantasia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奇幻 (zh) (qíhuàn)

• Czech: fantasy f
• Dutch: fantasy (nl)
• Finnish: fantasia (fi), fantasiakirjallisuus
• French: fantaisie (fr) f, fantasy (fr) f
• Georgian: ფენტეზი (penṭezi), ფანტასტიკა (panṭasṭiḳa)
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• German: Fantasy (de) f
• Greek: φαντασία (el) f (fantasía), λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού f (logotechnía tou fantastikoú)
• Italian: fantasy (it) m
• Japanese: ファンタジー (fantajī)
• Persian: فانتزی (fa) (fântezi)
• Portuguese: fantasia (pt) f
• Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika), фэ́нтези (ru) n (fɛ́ntezi)
• Swahili: fantasia
• Swedish: fantasy (sv)

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• Dutch: fantasie (nl)
• Hungarian: fantázia (hu)
• Indonesian: fantasi (id)
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• Latin: somnium n, phantasia f
• Romanian: fantezie (ro) f

Verb

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

1. (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
2. (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

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See also

• fancy

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Czech

Noun

fantasy f

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

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French

Noun

fantasy f (plural fantasys)

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)