fantasy

fantasy

noun

Definition of FANTASY

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, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

Related Words ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp; brainchild, idea; concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualization; cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia; daymare, nightmare

Phrases castle in Spain, castle in the air

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>

Synonyms contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality

Related Words brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration; fecundity, fertility; ingenuity, resourcefulness; versatility; chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream; envisaging, visualization

Near Antonyms literality, literalness

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>

Synonyms fable, fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, invention

Related Words anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn; fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper; make-believe

Near Antonyms actuality, realness

Antonyms fact, materiality, reality

Variants of FANTASY

fantasy also phantasy