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PHANTASY
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Irregular inflected form: phantasied
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Imagination unrestricted by reality
Example:
a schoolgirl fantasy
Synonyms:
fantasy; phantasy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phantasy" is a kind of...):
imagination; imaginativeness; vision (the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasy"):
dream; pipe dream (a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe))
fantasy life; phantasy life (an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world)
fairyland; fantasy world; phantasy world (something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something many people believe that is false
Example:
they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
Synonyms:
fancy; fantasy; illusion; phantasy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phantasy" is a kind of...):
misconception (an incorrect conception)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasy"):
bubble (an impracticable and illusory idea)
ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp (an illusion that misleads)
wishful thinking (the illusion that what you wish for is actually true)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
Example:
she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies
Synonyms:
fantasy; phantasy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phantasy" is a kind of...):
fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasy"):
science fiction (literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society)
