fantasy
IPA: fˈæntʌsi
noun
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- A fantastical design.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
verb
- (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
- (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
- (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.
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Examples of "fantasy" in Sentences
- The game is set in the fantasy realm.
- Stop living in a fantasy or dream world.
- I'm a fan of science fiction and fantasy.
- The end of the book descends into fantasy.
- A chain of fantasy is interwoven in the story.
- The companion volume is The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
- The bookstore is inundated with countless fantasy fiction.
- In the USSR, the scientific and technical fantasy was popular.
- I write speculative and science fiction, and a smattering of fantasy.
- Now, when you use the term fantasy, is this something you were doing for your personal pleasure?
- Given the male-centric history of sex in fantasy, is it good or bad if my male character is into bondage?
- Now that could be a result of my comparative lack of reading in fantasy, which is why I'm still open to reading more.
- There have also been suggestions, if not recently, that the boom in fantasy is partly due to the negativity and lack of “soaring imagination” of current science fiction.
- CHERITH (at left): I think the Harry Potter books have created a greater interest in fantasy literature in the present day, but I think the need for fantasy is something very deeply rooted in the human mind, not just for children.
- The desire for authenticity * is* a Modernist element, so saying it's not found in fantasy, that fantasy is a Romantic form is simply to narrow the definition of "fantasy" to include Romantic works and techniques but exclude Modernist techniqes.
- The "Shit Blows Up" fun of Jack's rampaging could even be quite validly deemed escapist; it's just that I try to subvert the consolation subtly within the episodes or through their relationships with the rest of the text, to seduce the reader into engaging with reality even when the fantasy is at its most sensationalist.
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