Synonyms of fantasies

fantasies 1 of 2

noun

variants also phantasies

plural of fantasy

1

as in dreams

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

a constant daydreamer who started to believe his own fantasies

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dreams
• visions
• daydreams
• illusions
• delusions
• ideas
• unrealities
• nightmares
• hallucinations
• chimeras
• phantasms
• conceits
• castles in the air
• figments
• pipe dreams
• fancies
• mirages
• castles in Spain
• fictions
• nonentities
• concoctions
• utopias
• inventions
• fabrications
• visualizations
• brainchildren
• fables
• ignes fatui
• will-o'-the-wisps
• cloud-cuckoo-lands
• cloudlands
• Shangri-las
• daymares

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

2

as in fictions

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 & Similar Words

• fictions
• tales
• stories
• inventions
• figments
• fables
• fabrications
• novels
• narratives
• anecdotes
• yarns
• lies
• fairy tales
• misrepresentations
• falsehoods
• untruths
• falsities
• prevarications
• mendacities
• make-believe
• fibs
• whoppers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities
• materialities

fantasies

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of fantasy

as in imagines

to form a mental picture of

She regularly fantasies exciting adventures.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imagines
• dreams
• envisions
• visions
• pictures
• sees
• fancies
• fantasizes
• features
• images
• conceives
• conceits
• visualizes
• envisages
• daydreams
• conjures (up)
• plans
• contemplates
• ideates
• muses
• hallucinates
• reflects
• projects
• reminisces
• relives
• stargazes
• ruminates
• manufactures
• ponders
• invents
• concocts
• foresees
• meditates
• prefigures
• makes up
• re-creates
• fabricates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fantasies

Noun

Though Klum sat in the makeup chair for nine hours to fulfill her reptilian fantasies, the highlight of her costume were the mechanical snakes on her head. — Lynsey Eidell, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2026

In this particular love club, some fantasies really do come true. — Megan O’Sullivan, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026

The point isn’t that horror needs to become gentler, or that its ugliest fantasies should disappear. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2026

Canada gets in their way, an obstacle to their hegemonic fantasies. — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

In an era in which smut, about romantic monsters and other fantasies, draws large readership and Heated Rivalry has ignited television viewers to want more from romance, Wicker has impeccable timing. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993. — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

Every week, the critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, fantasies, mysteries and everything in between. — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2026

His search gradually shifts from extraterrestrial fantasies toward the invisible outsiders living among us on Earth. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026