fantasy
[ˈfæ̃ɾ̃əsi]
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.52 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Is not this something more than fantasy?"
- "A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory."
- "The whole position was so tremendous and so absolutely unearthly, that I believe it actually lulled our sense of terror, but to this hour I often see it in my dreams, and at its mere phantasy wake up covered with cold sweat."
- "Try as hard as it can, empirical science cannot come up with a naturalistic explanation; it can only slip into fantasies that make scientists feel good because they are in harmony with their opinions, prejudices, and unconscious assumptions about the nature of reality."
- "Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread."
- "Instead of phantasying marriage, she actually feels that she is already married to the man of her phantasy."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor. Latin phantasia Old French fantasiebor. Middle English fantasie English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy. Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.
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- American English: [ˈfæ̃ɾ̃əsi]
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Phrases
dark fantasy
epic fantasy
fantasy baseball
fantasy casket
fantasy coffin
fantasy collapse
fantasy cricket
fantasy football