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1fan·ta·sy Pronunciation: 'fan-t&-sE, -zE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -sies
1 obsolete : HALLUCINATION; especially : the free play of creative imagination
2 : FANCY; especially : the free play of creative imagination
3 : a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: as a : a fanciful design or invention b : a chimerical or fantastic d : imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters -- called also fantasy fiction
4 : the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need <an object of fantasy>; also : a mental image or a series of mental images (as a daydream) so created <sexual fantasies of adolescence>
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