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

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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

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fantasies

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verb

present tense third-person singular of fantasy
as in imagines
to form a mental picture of She regularly fantasies exciting adventures.

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Recent Examples of fantasies
Noun
The Gilded Age’s third season and fourth-season premiere have spent a significant amount of time spinning cotton-candy fantasies of romance. — The Editors, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasies
  1. dreams
  2. fictions
  3. imagines
  4. visions
  5. tales
  6. envisions
  7. daydreams
  8. stories
Noun
  • Evidence remains mixed, and dreams could also be an experiential by-product of useful sleeping-brain activity, rather than an adaptation with its own job description.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026
  • This is the state that Haley Stevens has claimed to literally see in her dreams.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of dreams
Noun
  • This multiversal collapse not only erodes the walls dividing fictions but also reconfigures the interface between fiction and reality.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Over time, writers offered up fictions to fill in the gaps of the story.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of fictions
Verb
  • Bacon’s own utopian fantasy The New Atlantis imagines a brave technocratic future, and seemingly predicts everything from submarines to genetic modification and the internet.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Rooms With the Hanoi Opera House just steps away, each of Capella Hanoi's 47 rooms and suites imagines the private quarters of an opera legend.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of imagines
Noun
  • Some opening day effects are long gone, such as the illusion created by actual shifting doors at the start of the attraction, or visions of tumbling rubble near its beginning.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Polls now show the two running neck-and-neck in a race marked by sharply different visions for Brazil’s economy, security and place in the world.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of visions
Noun
  • Amused, the actor offered a gentle lesson in mixing the perfect vodka and orange juice—just one of countless tales this legendary hotel has collected over nearly a century.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
  • As always, a conversation with Moby is a fascinating journey, from lessons on fame to tales of hanging with David Bowie and Lou Reed.
    — Steve Baltin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of tales
Verb
  • Tesla envisions the vehicle operating without a human driver as part of an autonomous ride-hailing service.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Last week, the government submitted a 106-page plan for the arch that envisions a massive structure more than 12 stories high that includes a huge bronze statue of Lady Liberty with wings and carrying a torch with an eternal flame.
    — Matthew Daly, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of envisions
Noun
  • This helps warm up the imagination; daydreams, nightmares are easy ways in.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The songs on Purdy also have the tone of journal entries, detailing haggard trips to the grocery store, daydreams about his young daughters’ glamorous adult lives, and observations about the banality of oppression.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of daydreams
Noun
  • The histories, stories and insights into personalities will be lost forever.
    — Gary Barron, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
  • When researchers tell stories about people who are victims of crimes—ranging from having an iPad stolen to being raped—such victims are seen as virtuous, more moral and more trustworthy than comparable people who have not been victimized.
    — Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of stories

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