fantastiˈcationn.

1880 ‘V. Lee’ Belcaro i. 13 All the wonderful fantastications of art philosophers.

1929 C. L. Morgan Portrait in Mirror iv. 211 Richard..would laugh, too, at my folly and be unable to consider it as anything but a boy's fantastication of life.

1931 Punch 28 Oct. 471/2 Mr Alan Napier had a well-written part in the Venetian Ambassador and brought the man to life, his habitual fantastications being reasonably in the picture.

1955 Times 15 July 4/4 His gay fantastication of nature in delicate pinks and greens of a truly theatrical effect plays a great part in the preposterous idyll of the lovers' day in the country. This fantastication includes all sorts of recklessly idiotic birds and snails and kite-flying cows.

1969 Daily Tel. 23 July 19/1 This scene comes off well. There is a regrettable lack of high elegance, of aristocratic fantastication, in the proceedings.