fantasy

Meanings

Noun

• That which comes from one's imagination.
• The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
• A fantastical design.
• The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Verb

• To fantasize (about).
• To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
• To imagine; to conceive mentally.

Origin

• From Old French fantasie ("fantasy"), from Latin phantasia ("imagination"), from Ancient Greek φαντασία ("apparition"). fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.