n.
(pl. fantasies)
- the faculty or activity of imagining improbable things.
▸a pleasant or desirable imaginary situation:
the notion of being independent is a child's ultimate fantasy.
▸an idea with no basis in reality.
- a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure.
- a fantasia.
v.
(fantasies, fantasying, fantasied)
literary fantasize about.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. fantasie, from L. phantasia, from Gk ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein (see fantastic).