fantasistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfæn.tə.sɪst/us/ˈfæn.tə.sɪst/someone who often has fantasies, or who confuses fantasy and what is real
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dreaming
- be hearing/imagining/seeing things idiom
- be miles away idiom
- daydream
- daydreaming
- daze
- dream
- dreamless
- fantasize
- hallucinate
- hallucination
- hallucinatory
- in a dream idiom
- nightmare
- optical illusion
- out of 2
- out of it idiom
- reverie
- thing
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Examples from literature
- And assuredly, the Marquis de Sade is only a timid bourgeois, a mediocre fantasist, beside him!