fantasy

Definitions


[ˈfantəsi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things
(e.g: his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy)

- a fantasia


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French fantasie, via Latin from Greek phantasia ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein ‘make visible’. From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantasy was also used


[ˈfantəsi], (Verb)

Definitions:
- imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about
(e.g: it is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French fantasie, via Latin from Greek phantasia ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein ‘make visible’. From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantasy was also used




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