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Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂n̥yéti Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek φᾰντός (phăntós) Proto-Indo-European *-(e)h₂d-yéti? Ancient Greek -αγ- (-ag-) Ancient Greek *-ϳω (*-jō) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.
Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfæntəsi/, /ˈfæntəzi/
Noun
fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)
- That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:The whole position was so tremendous and so absolutely unearthly, that I believe it actually lulled our sense of terror, but to this hour I often see it in my dreams, and at its mere phantasy wake up covered with cold sweat.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 92:Try as hard as it can, empirical science cannot come up with a naturalistic explanation; it can only slip into fantasies that make scientists feel good because they are in harmony with their opinions, prejudices, and unconscious assumptions about the nature of reality.
- (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.
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Translations
that which comes from one's imagination
- Afrikaans: fantasie
- Albanian: fantazi (sq) f
- Arabic: خَيَال (ar) m (ḵayāl)
- Armenian: երևակայություն (hy) (erewakayutʻyun), ֆանտազիա (hy) (fantazia)
- Belarusian: фанта́зія f (fantázija), выабражэ́нне n (vyabražénnje), выабражэ́ньне n (vyabražénʹnje), уяўле́нне (be) n (ujawljénnje), уяўле́ньне n (ujawljénʹnje), вы́мысел m (výmysjel)
- Bulgarian: въображе́ние (bg) n (văobražénie), фанта́зия (bg) f (fantázija)
- Catalan: fantasia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 幻想 (zh) (huànxiǎng), 空想 (zh) (kōngxiǎng)
- Czech: fantazie (cs) f, výmysl m
- Danish: fantasi c
- Dutch: fantasie (nl) f
- Esperanto: fantazio (eo)
- Estonian: fantaasia
- Finnish: kuvittelu (fi), kuvitelma (fi), mielikuva (fi)
- French: fantaisie (fr) f, imaginaire (fr) m, fantasme (fr) m
- German: Fantasie (de) f, Phantasie (de) f
- Hindi: कल्पना (hi) f (kalpanā), काल्पनिक (hi) (kālpanik), स्वैरकल्पना f (svairkalpanā)
- Hungarian: agyszülemény (hu), fantázia (hu), képzelet (hu)
- Ido: fantazio (io)
- Irish: fantaisíocht f
- Italian: fantasia (it) f
- Japanese: 幻想 (ja) (げんそう, gensō), 空想 (ja) (くうそう, kūsō), ファンタジー (ja) (fantajī), 狂想 (きょうそう, kyōsō)
- Kazakh: қиял (qıyal)
- Korean: 환상(幻想) (ko) (hwansang), 공상(空想) (ko) (gongsang), 상상(想像) (ko) (sangsang), 판타지 (ko) (pantaji)
- Kyrgyz: кыял (kıyal)
- Latin: somnium n
- Latvian: fantāzija f
- Lithuanian: fantazija f
- Macedonian: вообразба f (voobrazba), фантазија f (fantazija)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: خِیال (xiyâl), فانْتِزی (fântezi)
- Polish: fantazja (pl) f, wyobraźnia (pl) f, wymysł (pl) m
- Portuguese: fantasia (pt) f
- Romanian: fantezie (ro) f
- Russian: фанта́зия (ru) f (fantázija), воображе́ние (ru) n (voobražénije), вы́мысел (ru) m (výmysel)
- Slovak: fantázia f, predstava f
- Slovene: fantazija f
- Spanish: fantasía (es) f, lirismo (es) m (Puerto Rico)
- Swedish: fantasi (sv) c
- Tajik: хаёл (xayol)
- Thai: ความเพ้อฝัน (th) (kwaam-pə́ə-fǎn), การฝันเฟื่อง (gaan-fǎn-fʉ̂ʉang)
- Turkish: hayal (tr)
- Ukrainian: фанта́зія f (fantázija), уя́ва f (ujáva), уя́влення (uk) n (ujávlennja), ви́мисел m (výmysel), ви́гадка f (výhadka), ви́гад m (výhad)
- Uzbek: xayol (uz), fantaziya (uz)
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literary genre
- Albanian: fantazi (sq) f
- Arabic: فَنْتَازِيَا f (fantāziyā)
- Armenian: ֆենտեզի (hy) (fentezi), ֆանտաստիկա (hy) (fantastika)
- Azerbaijani: fantastika, fentezi
- Belarusian: фэ́нтэзі f (féntezi), фанта́стыка f (fantástyka)
- Bulgarian: фе́нтъзи n (féntăzi), фанта́стика (bg) f (fantástika)
- Catalan: fantasia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 奇幻 (kei4 waan6)
- Hokkien: 奇幻 (zh-min-nan) (kî-hoān / kî-hoàn)
- Mandarin: 奇幻 (zh) (qíhuàn)
- Czech: fantasy (cs) f
- Danish: fantasy c
- Dutch: fantasy (nl) f
- Estonian: imeulme, fantaasia
- Finnish: fantasia (fi), fantasiakirjallisuus
- French: fantaisie (fr) f, fantasy (fr) f
- Georgian: ფენტეზი (penṭezi), ფანტასტიკა (panṭasṭiḳa)
- German: Fantasy (de) f, Fantastik f, Phantastik f
- Greek: φαντασία (el) f (fantasía), λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού f (logotechnía tou fantastikoú)
- Hindi: कल्पना (hi) f (kalpanā), काल्पनिक (hi) (kālpanik)
- Hungarian: fantasy (hu)
- Icelandic: fantasía (is) f
- Indonesian: fantasi (id)
- Italian: fantasy (it) m
- Japanese: ファンタジー (ja) (fantajī)
- Kazakh: фэнтези (fènteziy), фантастика (fantastıyka)
- Korean: 판타지 (ko) (pantaji)
- Kyrgyz: фэнтези (fentezi), фантастика (fantastika)
- Lao: ຈິນຕະມິນິດ (chin ta mi nit)
- Latvian: fantastika f
- Lithuanian: fantastika f
- Macedonian: фантастика f (fantastika)
- Malay: fantasi (ms)
- Māori: paki pohewa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fantasy m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: فانْتِزی (fântezi)
- Polish: fantasy (pl) n, fantastyka (pl) f, fantazja (pl) f
- Portuguese: fantasia (pt) f
- Romanian: literatură fantastică (ro) f
- Russian: фанта́стика (ru) f (fantástika), фэ́нтези (ru) n (fɛ́ntɛzi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фанта̀стика f
- Latin: fantàstika (sh) f
- Slovak: fantasy f
- Slovene: fantastika f, fantazija f
- Swahili: fantasia (sw)
- Swedish: fantasy (sv) c
- Tagalog: pantasya
- Tajik: фантазия (fantaziya), фантастика (fantastika)
- Tatar: фэнтези (fentezi), фантастика (fantastiqa)
- Thai: แฟนตาซี (fɛɛn-dtaa-sii), จินตนิมิต (jin-dtà-ní-mít)
- Turkish: fantezi (tr)
- Turkmen: fantaziýa, fantastika
- Ukrainian: фе́нтезі n (féntezi), фанта́стика f (fantástyka)
- Urdu: فَنْطاسِیَہ m (fantāsiya)
- Uzbek: fantastika (uz), fentezi
- Vietnamese: kì ảo (vi), kỳ ảo (vi)
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Translations to be checked Verb
fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)
- (transitive)
- To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
- (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize about (something).
1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 127:Instead of phantasying marriage, she actually feels that she is already married to the man of her phantasy.
2013, Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV:Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
- (intransitive)
- To conceive mentally; to imagine.
1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Thirde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 816:Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient.
- (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:Which he doth most fantasy.
1641, George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe:The kyng fantasied so much his daughter Anne that almost everything began to grow out of frame and good order
See also
Czech
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂n̥yéti Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek φᾰντός (phăntós) Proto-Indo-European *-(e)h₂d-yéti? Ancient Greek -αγ- (-ag-) Ancient Greek *-ϳω (*-jō) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Czech fantasy Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.
Pronunciation
Noun
fantasy f or n (indeclinable)
- (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
Declension
Declension of fantasy (indeclinable feminine)
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Further reading
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasi.
Noun
fantasy
- (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.
Pronunciation
Noun
fantasy f (plural fantasys)
- (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
- Hyponym: heroic fantasy
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfæːn.tə.si/, /ˈfæːn.ta.si/
Noun
fantasy m (definite singular fantasyen, indefinite plural fantasyer, definite plural fantasyene)
- (literature) fantasy (genre)
References
Polish
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂n̥yéti Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek φᾰντός (phăntós) Proto-Indo-European *-(e)h₂d-yéti? Ancient Greek -αγ- (-ag-) Ancient Greek *-ϳω (*-jō) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Polish fantasy Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantazja.
Pronunciation
Noun
fantasy n (indeclinable)
- fantasy (genre)
Adjective
fantasy (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (relational) fantasy
Related terms
Further reading
- “fantasy”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “fantasy”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[2] (in Polish)
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