fantasizev.
a. intr. = fantasy v. 1c.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > indulge in fancy [verb (intransitive)]
to feign to oneself1377
feign1557
chimerize1651
wanton1794
fantasticate1880
pipe-dream1910
fantasize1926
1926 Spectator 13 Mar. 455/2 Certainly one may fantasize to one's own taste.
1960 Guardian 28 Sept. 11/2 Only when they listened to each other could one fantasize about their mood.
b. trans. To visualize fancifully, to represent in the fancy.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > conceive in fancy [verb (transitive)]
fantasyc1430
feign1557
fantasticate1600
fancya1643
fantasize1950
1950 L. S. London & F. S. Caprio Sexual Deviations xiii. 593, I used to put my penis between my legs so that nothing but the hair of the pubic region showed and would thus fantasize how my sister looked when I did the peeping.
1961 E. Hunter Mothers & Daughters i. 59 The men were..fantasizing the entire crew in dress uniform.
1968 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 3 Nov. D1/6, I always fantasized myself as a James Dean type.
Derivatives
ˈfantasized adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal
imaginary?1510
imaginative1517
rational1530
fantastical1531
fantasied1561
airy1565
fancied1568
legendary1570
dreamed1597
fabled1606
ideal1611
fictive1612
affectual1614
insubstantiala1616
imaginatorya1618
supposititious1620
fictitious1621
utopian1624
utopic1624
notional1629
affective1633
fictiousa1644
notionary1646
figmental1655
suppositious1655
fict1677
visionary1725
metaphysical1728
unrealized1767
fancy1801
nice-spun1801
subjective1815
aerial1829
transcendental1835
cardboardy1863
mythical1870
cardboard1879
fictionary1882
figmentary1887
alternative1939
alternate1944
fantasized1964
ideate1966
fanciful-
fantastic-
1964 Spectator 8 May 632/2 The manner and matter of these various charges seem to belong to his own fantasised world.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2011).
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