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fantasy

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of fantasy

to form a mental picture of
  • she regularly fantasies sexual encounters that she knows will never happen
Synonyms of fantasy

conceit [chiefly dialect], conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, feature, ideate, image, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualize
Words Related to fantasy

daydream, stargaze

hallucinate

re-create, reflect, relive, reminisce

contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate

concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project

foresee, prefigure

fantasy

noun
variants: also phantasy

Synonyms and Antonyms of fantasy

1 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
  • a constant daydreamer who started to believe his own fantasies
Synonyms of fantasy

chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision
Words Related to fantasy

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare
Phrases Synonymous with fantasy

castle in Spain, castle in the air
Near Antonyms of fantasy

actuality, fact, reality
2 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others
  • the painter gave free rein to his fantasy to create pictures that capture the kind of reality we experience only in our dreams
Synonyms of fantasy

contrivance, creativity, fancy, ideation, imagination, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality
Words Related to fantasy

brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration

fecundity, fertility

ingenuity, resourcefulness

versatility

chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream

envisaging, visualization
Near Antonyms of fantasy

literality, literalness
3 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 of fantasy

fable, fabrication, fiction, figment, invention
Words Related to fantasy

anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn

fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper

make-believe
Near Antonyms of fantasy

actuality, realness
Antonyms of fantasy

fact, materiality, reality

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