fantasist

noun

fan·​ta·​sist ˈfan-tə-sist How to pronounce fantasist (audio)
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: one who creates fantasias or fantasies

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Gothic horror influences have rippled through Guillermo del Toro’s incantatory work since the Mexican fantasist burst onto the scene with Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025 But in truth, one of them is a romantic and fantasist. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025 That until such monsters and secret policemen and fantasists of apartheid, are as abandoned and disgraced as the National Socialists, there will be war. Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 Walsh’s male fantasists—the nameless rubes of Ballyturk, the desperate suitors of Penelope, even the heartbroken father at the center of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers—get to strut and bluster and scream into the wind. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fantasist

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of fantasist was in 1896

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“Fantasist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantasist. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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