less common spelling of fantasy
2
: fancy;
especially
: the free play of creative imagination
3
: a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: such as
a
: a fanciful design or invention
- a fantasy of delicate tracery
b
: a chimerical or fantastic notion
- His plans are pure fantasy.
c
: fantasia 1
- the organ fantasy of Johannes Brahms
d
: imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters
- spent the summer reading fantasy
4
: caprice
- served to fulfill the king's fantasies
5
: the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need
- an object of fantasy
- sexual fantasies
6
often attributive
: a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (such as a government-in-exile)
