fantasy

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English

Alternative forms

• phantasie (obsolete)
• phantasy (archaic)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæntəsi/, /ˈfæntəzi/

Noun

fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

1. That which comes from one's imagination.
2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
3. A fantastical design.
4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fantasize

Descendants

Translations

Verb

fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)

1. (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
2. (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
3. (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

See also

• cloud-cuckoo-land

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.

Noun

fantasy f

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasi.

Noun

fantasy

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

French

Alternative forms

• fantasie

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.tɛ.zi/, /fɑ̃.te.zi/
• Homophones: fantaisie, fantaisies, phantaisie, phantaisies

Noun

fantasy f (plural fantasys)

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

   Hyponym: heroic fantasy

Further reading

• “fantasy” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “fantasy” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæːn.tə.si/, /ˈfæːn.ta.si/

Noun

fantasy m (definite singular fantasyen, indefinite plural fantasyer, definite plural fantasyene)

1. (literature) fantasy (genre)

References

• “fantasy” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fantasy” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantazja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfan.ta.zɨ/, /fanˈta.zɨ/
• Rhymes: -azɨ
• Syllabification: fan‧ta‧sy

Noun

fantasy n (indeclinable)

1. fantasy (genre)

Adjective

fantasy (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (relational) fantasy

Related terms

Further reading

• fantasy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fantasy in Polish dictionaries at PWN