phantasy
nounless common spelling of fantasy
1 obsolete : hallucination
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 sense 1 the organ fantasy of Johannes Brahms
d
: imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters
spent the summer reading fantasy
— called also
fantasy fiction
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 also : a mental image or a series of mental images (such as a daydream) so created 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)
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