fantasy
Plural: fantasies
Noun
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- "a schoolgirl fantasy"
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
- something many people believe that is false
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- A fantastical design.
- The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
Verb
Verb Forms: fantasied, fantasying, fantasies
- To imagine or indulge in elaborate daydreams.
- indulge in fantasies
- To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
- To fantasize about something).
- To conceive mentally; to imagine.
- To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
Examples
- I often fantasy about having a rack full of ’Q’, ’Z’, ’J’, and ’X’ tiles.
Origin / Etymology
Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.
Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.
Scrabble Score: 13
fantasy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfantasy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fantasy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary