Definition of fantasy

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fan·ta·sy    (fnt-s, -z) KEY 

NOUN:
pl. fan·ta·sies

1. The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy. See Synonyms at imagination.
2. Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.
3. A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.
4. 1. Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.
   2. An example of such fiction.
5. An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need.
6. An unrealistic or improbable supposition.
7. Music See fantasia.
8. A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency.
9. Obsolete A hallucination.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
fan·ta·sied, fan·ta·sy·ing, fan·ta·sies

To imagine; visualize.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English fantasie, fantsy, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasi, appearance, imagination, from phantazesthai, to appear, from phantos, visible, from phainesthai, to appear; see bh-¹ in Indo-European roots