Thesaurus results for FANTASIZING

fantasizing

verb

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present participle of fantasize

as in imagining

to form a mental picture of all those lottery players fantasizing themselves as living in extravagant luxury

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Recent Examples of fantasizing Hedda’s romantic picture — of Lovborg dying magnificently, with Dionysian vine leaves in his hairs, from a bullet of one of her own guns — smacks of the same literary cliches that has Emma fantasizing about a torchlight wedding at midnight. —

Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026 When her daughter was born in December, Ivanova called her Yustyna – the name the couple picked together when fantasizing about having children. —

Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026 Storylines like this, in our age of escalating eat-the-rich sentiment, allow viewers to vicariously enjoy beautiful homes and high-maintenance bodies while also fantasizing about (or, for more comfortable audiences, safely exploring fears of) class warfare. —

Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026 The story follows trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci, who obsesses over masked men on social media, fantasizing about them chasing her down. —

Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 26 Jan. 2026 But what was more interesting to me are those who aren’t fantasizing about being in a fictional world, but who are fantasizing about being a different reader, in a more secure nonfictional world. —

James Folta, Literary Hub, 13 Jan. 2026 The irony here is that many in Washington have been openly fantasizing about how advanced AI systems could revolutionize military strategy and reshape geopolitics—to such an extent that this speculation has fueled a kind of arms race with China. —

Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026 In the face of that reality—the death, functionally, of the American dream—millennials, Gen Zers and Gen Alphaers have started fantasizing about the abolition of money, of technology, of progress entirely, to the point of dreaming about regressing away from humanity itself. —

Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025 Civility ⬇ Virginia's Jay Jones sent texts fantasizing about shooting a Republican opponent, then won his race for attorney general. —

Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasizing

Verb

Slaves began imagining the possibility of freedom.

— Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.

— Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 24 Mar. 2026