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

This is the same thing, only moms are living their I-wish-when-I-was-in-college fantasies through their daughters. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026

From Churchill onward, many British leaders clung to fantasies of global power and splendid isolation from Europe, fantasies that culminated in the disaster of Brexit. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Feeding such fantasies is the job of impresarios like Rachel Sussman. — William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Shamelessness has been central to Trump’s business and political success, and his reaction to setbacks is to deny objective facts and construct fantasies of achievement. — Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026

Your routine could feel unbearably repetitive, sparking fantasies of abandoning the whole thing. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026

But his imagination is active and, soon, with Erika, the fantasies become real. — ABC News, 29 July 2026

Dee, who died ignominiously in three out of the guys’ four fantasies, disarmed the robber, then shot the guys herself before parlaying her stint in witness protection into a lucrative career as an actress. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026

And, contrary to the fantasies of libertarians, no good road net has ever emerged from the spontaneous actions of individuals maximizing their own welfare and without collective action through government. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 July 2026