Fantasy

Noun

 * 1) That which comes from one's imagination
 * 2)  The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
 * 3)  The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Related terms

 * fantasize

Verb

 * 1) To fantasize (about)

Thesaurus
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Alternative forms

 * phantasie
 * phantasy

Etymology
From fantasie:, from  phantasia:, from  φαντασία:, from φαντάζω:, from φαίνω:, from the same root as  ϕῶς:.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * Catalan: fantasia
 * French:


 * Japanese: 幻想 (げんそう, gensō), 空想 (くうそう, kūsō), ファンタジー (fantajī)
 * Russian: фантазия


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: fantasia, fantasiakirjallisuus
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek:, λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: фантастика


 * Chinese: 幻想 (huànxiǎng)
 * Italian: fantasia
 * Dutch: fantasie
 * Hungarian: fantázia


 * Romanian: fantezie
 * Indonesian: fantasi
 * Portuguese: fantasia

Noun

 * 1) fantasy  literary genre