| NOUN | cognition | fantasy, phantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality |
|---|---|---|---|
| communication | fantasy, phantasy | fiction with a large / large / large amount of imagination / imagination in it | |
| cognition | fantasy, illusion, phantasy, fancy | something many people believe that is false / false | |
| VERB | creation | fantasy, fantasize, fantasise | indulge in fantasies |
| Sounds | fae'nahsiy; fae'ntahsiy | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | imagination unrestricted by reality. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a schoolgirl fantasy" | |
| Synonym | phantasy | |
| Narrower | fantasy life, phantasy life | An imaginary life lived in a fantasy world |
| fantasy world, phantasy world, fairyland | Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken / mistaken for reality) | |
| pipe dream, dream | A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | |
| Broader | imagination, imaginativeness, vision | The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
| Spanish | fantasía | |
| Catalan | fantasia | |
| Adjectives | fantastic, fantastical | existing in fancy only |
| fantastic | fanciful and unrealistic | |
| Nouns | fantasist | a creator of fantasies |
| Verbs | fantasy, fantasize | indulge in fantasies |
| Meaning | fiction with a large / large / large amount of imagination / imagination in it. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | phantasy | |
| Narrower | science fiction | literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society |
| Broader | fiction | A literary work based on the imagination / imagination and not necessarily on fact |
| Spanish | fantasía | |
| Catalan | fantasia | |
| Nouns | fantasist | a creator of fantasies |
| Meaning | Something many people believe that is false / false. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | illusion, phantasy, fancy | |
| Narrower | bubble | An impracticable and illusory idea |
| will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus | An illusion that misleads | |
| wishful thinking | The illusion that what you wish for is actually true | |
| Broader | misconception | An incorrect conception |
| Spanish | fantasía, ilusión | |
| Catalan | fantasia, il·lusió | |
| Verbs | fantasy, fantasize | indulge in fantasies |
| Meaning | indulge in fantasies. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Synonyms | fantasize, fantasise | |
| Broader | imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
| Spanish | fantasear, soñar | |
| Catalan | fantasiar, fantasiejar | |
| Nouns | fantasy | imagination unrestricted by reality |
| fantasy | something many people believe that is false / false | |
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