fantasynoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈfæn.tə.si/us/ˈfæn.tə.si/B2 a pleasant situation that you enjoy thinking about but is unlikely to happen, or the activity of imagining things like this:
Steve's favourite fantasy was to own a big house and a flashy car.
sexual fantasies
She retreated into a fantasy world, where she could be anything she wanted.
a story or type of literature that describes situations that are very different from real life, usually involving magic:
His preferred reading was horror stories and fantasy.
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- Halfway through the film reality evaporates and we enter a world of pure fantasy.
- As a child, she frequently withdrew into her own fantasy world.
- His latest film has been condemned as the priapic fantasies of an old man.
- In the psychotherapy group, patients were free to play out their fantasies.
- The result is a decidedly mixed bag of campy humor, wild-eyed fantasy and high-tech special effects.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- false hopes
- falsity
- fictionalize
- figment
- flight of fancy idiom
- illusion
- la-la land
- make-believe
- never-never land
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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