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Noun: fantasy  fan-tu-see
  1. Imagination unrestricted by reality
    "a schoolgirl fantasy"
    - phantasy [archaic]
     
  2. Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
    "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
    - phantasy [archaic]
     
  3. Something many people believe that is false
    "they have the fantasy that I am very wealthy"
    - illusion, phantasy [archaic], fancy
Verb: fantasy  fan-tu-see
  1. Indulge in fantasies
    - fantasize, fantasise [Brit]

Derived forms: fantasies, fantasying, fantasied

See also: fantasist, fantastic, fantastical

Type of: conceive of, envisage, fiction, ideate, imagination, imaginativeness, imagine, misconception, vision

Encyclopedia: Fantasy