fantasist
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- phantasist (dated)
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fantasist (plural fantasists)
- One who creates fantasies.
- 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
- A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.
- 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
- One living in a fantasy world.
- A writer who writes in the fantasy style.
- 1991, Kath Filmer, Kath Filmer-Davies, The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age[1]:
- "Like the other fantasists dealt with in this volume, Rossetti used fantasy to subvert and undermine traditionalist notions, in this instance notions of male power and female submissiveness."
Translations[edit]
one who creates fantasies
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one living in a fantasy world
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fantasy writer
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See also[edit]
- fantast
- Pretendian (“Pretend Indian”)
References[edit]
- "The words beside the boxes read: 'Hooker, Liar, Porn Star, Fantasist, Trouble Maker, Shoplifter'." [2]