fantasy

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  1. noun The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy. See Synonyms at imagination.
  2. noun Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.
  3. noun A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.
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  • I had to begin to convince him that my fantasy could be a reality for us. —  VC Andrews - Broken Wings
  • Acting upon the fantasy was another matter altogether. —  Garwood, Julie - Mercy
  • Existential high fantasy is a tricky thing to pull off, but existential, in-your-face urban fantasy -- which is what most of the stories in Travel Arrangements are -- is even trickier. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • So whether or not it reads like a fantasy is irrelevant. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • David just made it sound like her fantasy was soon to come to life Chapter Six Joanie rolled over, frustrated, and punched her pillow. —  The First Time
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  1. Middle English fantasie, fantsy, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasiā, appearance, imagination, from phantazesthai, to appear, from phantos, visible, from phainesthai, to appear; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from fantasy, n.; the older form of fancy, q. v. Cf. Old French fantasier.
 

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