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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fan-tuh-see, -zee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæn tə si, -zi


Definition of phantasy

Origin :
  • early 14c., "illusory appearance," from Old French fantaisie (14c.) "vision, imagination," from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasia "appearance, image, perception, imagination," from phantazesthai "picture to oneself," from phantos "visible," from phainesthai "appear," in late Greek "to imagine, have visions," related to phaos, phos "light," phainein "to show, to bring to light" (see phantasm). Sense of "whimsical notion, illusion" is pre-1400, followed by that of "imagination," which is first attested 1530s. Sense of "day-dream based on desires" is from 1926.
  • As in reverie : noun daydream
  • As in daydream : noun fantasy thought of when awake
Example sentences :
  • He knew it was but a phantasy, but no phantasy was ever more horrible.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • The imagination, or phantasy, takes them to the rational soul.
  • Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
  • Beauty is no phantasy, it has the everlasting meaning of reality.
  • Extract from : « Creative Unity » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • The phantasy of it could only be expressed by some huge ceremonial hoax.
  • Extract from : « Utopia of Usurers and other Essays » by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Or was it some phantasy that Manitou had sent to bewilder him?
  • Extract from : « The Riflemen of the Ohio » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • It is a fine air, however, and lends itself to the phantasy of a musician.
  • Extract from : « Armorel of Lyonesse » by Walter Besant
  • Day and night her phantasy ran in one or other of these grooves.
  • Extract from : « A King of Tyre » by James M. Ludlow
  • He is a dreamer who struggles against the image of his phantasy.
  • Extract from : « My Austrian Love » by Maxime Provost
  • If that were so, should we not be compelled to reject the whole of this as phantasy and deception?
  • Extract from : « Life's Basis and Life's Ideal » by Rudolf Eucken
  • And if no dagger was there, they could at once see that 'twas phantasy.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849 » by Various

Synonyms for phantasy

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