Other forms: fantasies
A fantasy is an imagined situation that could not really happen. A childhood fantasy, pure fantasy, a fantasy novel.
As a genre it is one of the largest in publishing, and the line between it and science fiction is argued about endlessly and settled by nobody. Dismissing a claim as pure fantasy says it is not merely wrong but unconnected to how things work.
1nounfantasyAn imagined situation that could not really happen.
“Winning the lottery and buying an island is just a fantasy.”
fantasy is an imagining.
Greek phantasia means an appearing or imagination, from phainein, to show. Phantom is a relative.
Middle English
fantasie
English, today
fantasy
Built from
From Middle English fantasie. Noun Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (“apparition”), from φαντάζω (“to render visible”), from φαντός (“visible”), from φαίνω (“to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (“light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰh₂nyéti, from the root bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). a doublet of fancy and fantasia and phantasia and phantasy. Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. a doublet of fancy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA