Entry Word: fantasy

Function: noun

Meaning:

also phantasy

1 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality <a constant daydreamer who started to believe his own fantasies>

Synonyms chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, phantasm, pipe dream, unreality, vision

Related Words mirage; brainchild, idea; concoction, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualization

Near Antonyms actuality, fact, reality

2 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others <the painter gave free rein to his fantasy to create pictures that capture the kind of reality we experience only in our dreams> — see imagination
3 something that is the product of the imagination <we were coming to the conclusion that the person Karen “saw” in the woods was another one of her fantasies> — see fiction