Antonyms for fantasies
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fan-tuh-see, -zee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæn tə si, -zi |
Definition of fantasies
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.
- noun imagination, dream
- And would it cost you anything to accommodate yourself to his fantasies?
- Extract from : « The Middle Class Gentleman » by Moliere
- But now let us leave these fantasies of psychological fiction.
- Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
- Her fantasies and her fashions were imitated on every table of the Roman upper ten.
- Extract from : « The Child of Pleasure » by Gabriele D'Annunzio
- What fantasies she wove out of a rather limited imagination!
- Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
- And in the name of equality what fantasies of taxation have we not woven?
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- She was fond of her fantasies and would not easily interrupt them.
- Extract from : « The Explorer » by W. Somerset Maugham
- Our fantasies are always incomplete, because they are fantasies.
- Extract from : « This Simian World » by Clarence Day
- She loved his fantasies because she believed them natural to him.
- Extract from : « The Folly Of Eustace » by Robert S. Hichens
- Nay, True; my fantasies be not of thy lively romancing sort.
- Extract from : « All's Well » by Emily Sarah Holt
- When her fantasies contain elements of truth, so do the rumors.
- Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Synonyms for fantasies
- air castle
- apparition
- appearance
- Atlantis
- bubble
- chimera
- conceiving
- creativity
- daydream
- delusion
- envisioning
- externalizing
- fabrication
- fairyland
- fancy
- fancying
- fantasia
- figment
- flight
- flight of imagination
- fool's paradise
- hallucination
- head trip
- illusion
- imaginativeness
- imagining
- invention
- mind trip
- mirage
- nightmare
- objectifying
- originality
- rainbow
- reverie
- trip
- utopia
- vagary
- vision
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