fantasy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun imagination unrestricted by reality
    phantasy.
    • a schoolgirl fantasy
  2. noun fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
    phantasy.
    • she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies
  3. noun something many people believe that is false
    phantasy; illusion; fancy.
    • they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
  4. verb indulge in fantasies
    fantasize; fantasise.
    • he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company

WordNet

Fan"ta*sy noun
Etymology
See Fancy.
Wordforms
plural Fantasies
Definitions
  1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
    Is not this something more than fantasy ? Shak.
    A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.
  2. Fantastic designs.
    Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.
Fan"ta*sy transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. Obs. Cavendish.
    Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Webster 1913