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Definition: Fantasy |
FantasyNoun1. Imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy". 2. Fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies". 3. Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fantasy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, noun; plural Fantasies. [See Fancy.]. (references) |
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For other definitions of fantasy please see Fantasy (psychology).
In literature, fantasy is a form of fiction encompassing novels, short stories, role-playing games, and movies. It is typically set in worlds quite different from the Earth and inhabited by users of magic and mythical creatures such as dragons and unicorns. As a genre, fantasy is both associated and contrasted with science fiction and horror fiction. All three genres feature elements of the fantastic, of making radical departures from reality or radical speculations about what reality might be like, or might have been like. "Fantasy" seems reserved for fiction that features magic, brave knights, damsels in distress, mythical beasts, and quests. As such, it has a long and distinguished history, with beginnings in Greek mythology and Roman mythology (famous examples are Homer's Odyssey) and other epics such as Beowulf), and a very strong influence from medieval romance. The legend of King Arthur, with its magic, swordplay, and romance is another clear precursor of contemporary fantasy.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, much fantasy was published in the same magazines as science fiction (and often written by the same authors). After the great popularity, in the mid-20th century, of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series, fantasy writing saw renewed popularity, often influenced by these seminal works and, like them, borrowing from myth, epic, and medieval romance.
Comic fantasy -- especially the works of Terry Pratchett -- should also be mentioned here, which parodies the above ideas as well as ideas outside the genre.
This fiction and its older predecessors in turn gave birth to fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, which in turn spawned more fiction in the genre. Game companies have published fantasy novels set in their own fictional game universes; the Forgotten Realms and Battletech series are some of the more popular.
Similarly, series of novels based on fantasy films and TV series have found their own niche.
See list of fantasy authors for information about individual authors who write in this genre.
Since the rise of popular fantasy fiction in the Twentieth Century, the fantasy genre has subdivided into a number of branches:
See also:
- High fantasy
- Sword and sorcery
- Contemporary fantasy
- Comic fantasy
- Romantic fantasy
- Erotic fantasy
- Fantasy films (as distinct from science fiction films)
- Superhero fantasy - A subgenre usually closely mixed with elements of science fiction as well as other genres.
- Fairy tales
- Horror fiction
- Science fiction
- Speculative fiction
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A fantasy is a situation imagined by an individual or group, which does not correspond with reality but expresses certain desires or aims of its creator. Fantasies typically involve situations which are impossible (such as the existence of magic powers) or highly unlikely (such as world peace). Fantasies can also be sexual in nature.An adult who constantly seems to be living in a fantasy world may be considered a Walter Mitty character.
Fantasy is also a literary genre involving the development of common or popular fantasies.
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In theory fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic or exotic fantasy worlds, as distinct from science fiction films or horror films. The category has as much to do with approach as with context.Surrealist film also describes the fantastic. However it dispenses with genre narrative conventions and the aim of making lots of money.
Examples include:
Many fantasy films are considered to be among the ranks of the classics:
- The Company of Wolves
- The Dark Crystal
- Dragonheart
- Excalibur
- The Green Mile
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Hexer (Wiedźmin)
- Jason & the Argonauts
- Labyrinth
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime)
- The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
- and many more...
Others have become cult favourites:
- The Wizard of Oz
- Alice in Wonderland (1933 movie) - with Charlotte Henry, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant
- Alice in Wonderland (1951 movie) - Disney animated film
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
- Highlander
- Ladyhawke
- The Last Unicorn
- The Never Ending Story
- The Princess Bride
- Willow
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Fictional countries are common in stories of early science fiction (or scientific romance). These countries are supposedly part of the normal Earth landscape although they are not located in a normal atlas. Later similar tales often took place on fictional planets.Jonathan Swift's protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, visited various strange places. Edgar Rice Burroughs placed adventures of Tarzan in areas in Africa that, at the time, were mostly unexplored. Isolated islands with strange creatures and/or customs were popular in these authors' times. When Western explorers had surveyed most of the Earth's surface, this option was lost. Thereafter utopian and dystopian societies have been usually placed on other planets, whether in human colonies in our Solar system or in societies on fictional planets orbiting other stars.
Superhero and agent comicss and some thrillers also use fictional countries as backdrops. Most of these countries exist only for a single story, TV series episode or an issue of comic book.
Fictional countries are often made to resemble or even represent some real-world country or used to present a utopia or dystopia for commentary. Writers may create a fictional version of a specific country or, for example, a stereotypical "European", "Arabic", "Asian" or "Latin American" country for the purposes of their story. Variants of the country's name usually make it clear what country they really have in mind.
Modern writers usually do not try to pass off their stories as facts. However, in the early 18th century George Psalmanazar pretended to be a prince from the island of Formosa (what is now Taiwan) and wrote a fictional description about it to convince his sponsors.
Fictional countries include:
- Aerican Empire
- Al Amarja, Mediterranean island state in Over the Edge roleplaying game
- Airstrip One, Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Ardistan of Karl Friedrich May
- Babar's Kingdom
- Beninia of John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar
- Calia in Modesty Blaise episode The Jericho Caper
- Country of the Blind of H. G. Wells
- Dinotopia
- Ecotopia of Ernest Callenbach
- Erewhon of Samuel Butler
- Freedonia
- Freiland of Theodor Hertzka
- Gondor of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Gormenghast Castle of Mervyn Peake
- Grand Fenwick (pronounced 'fennick'
- Graustark
- Herland of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Lancre, mountain kingdom of Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Latveria of Marvel Universe
- Maple White Land, land of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
- Mardi archipelago of Herman Melville's Mardi and a voyage thither
- Moominland of Tove Jansson
- Mordor, mountain-girt land of evil in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Palombia of Spirou stories
- Pellucidar, one version of Hollow Earth
- Porto Claro
- Pottsylvania of Jay Ward's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
- Qumar, from the television series The West Wing
- Razkavia, Germanic country in Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess
- Riallaro archipelago of Godfrey Sweven (Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles)
- Rohan, home to the horse-lords in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Ruritania of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda
- San Lorenzo of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
- Skull Island of King Kong movie(s)
- Sylvania, belligerent neighbor to Freedonia in the movie Duck Soup.
- Wakanda of the Marvel Universe
- Island of Sodor between England and the Isle of Man, the setting for the Reverend Awdry's "Thomas the Tank Engine" railway network managed by "The Fat Controller"
- The Shire, land of the Hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Tanah Masa of Karel Capek's War with the Newts
- Utopia of Thomas More
- Tarzan had adventures in: Ashair, Caspak, Castra Sanguinaries & Castrum Mare, London-on-Thames, Opar, Pellucidar, Pal-ul-Don and Xujan Kingdom
- Tintin traveled to: Borduria, Khemed, San Theodoros, and Syldavia
- Lemuel Gulliver stumbled upon: Balnibarbi, Brobdingnag, Glubbdubdrib, Laputa, Lilliput and Blefuscu, Luggnagg and the land of the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos
It is historically unclear whether the following countries were intended to be fictional or whether they actually exist (or existed):
- Atlantis
- El Dorado (myth)
- Ophir
Books
- Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
- Brian Stableford: The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places
Related articles
- Imaginary country
- Imaginary counties such as Borsetshire in western England, geographic setting for Ambridge in the never-ending BBC radio series called The Archers.
- Imaginary state of USA.
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This list of fantasy authors, perhaps unsurprisingly, contains many overlaps with the List of science fiction authors.A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Lynn Abbey
- Lloyd Alexander, (born 1924) Chronicles of Prydain
- Piers Anthony, (born 1934) Xanth
- Robert Lynn Asprin, (born 1946) Myth Adventures, Thieves' World
B
- T.A. Barron
- L. Frank Baum, (1856-1919), Oz series
- Peter S. Beagle, (born 1939)
- John Bellairs, (1938-1991)
- Carol Berg
- Anne Bishop
- James P. Blaylock, (born 1950)
- Hannes Bok, (1914-1964)
- Elizabeth H. Boyer
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, (1930-1999) Darkover series, Sword and Sorceress anthologies
- Kristen Britain, Green Rider novels
- Terry Brooks, (born 1944) Shannara novels
- Steven Brust, (born 1955) Dragaera novels
- Jim Butcher
C
- James Branch Cabell, (1879-1958)
- Jonathan Carroll
- Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), (1832-1898), Alice in Wonderland
- Lin Carter, (1930-1988)
- Jack L. Chalker, (born 1944)
- C. J. Cherryh, (born 1942)
- G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936)
- Glen Cook, Black Company novels, Garrett PI novels
- Rick Cook, Wizardry series
- Louise Cooper Order & Chaos novels
- Susan Cooper, (born 1935) ''Dark is Rising sequence
- John Crowley, (born 1942)
D
- Avram Davidson, (1923-1993)
- L. Sprague de Camp, (1907-2000) The Compleat Enchanter, Conan stories
- Charles de Lint, (born 1951)
- Stephen Donaldson, (born 1947) The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Lord Dunsany, (1878-1957) (Edward Plunkett)
E
- David Eddings, (born 1931) Belgariad/Malloreon novels
- E. R. Eddison, (1882-1945)
- Mircea Eliade, (1907-1986)
- Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, (1910-2003)
F
- Raymond E. Feist, (born 1945) Midkemia/Kelewan novels
- Philip Jose Farmer, (born 1918), Riverworld saga
- Alan Dean Foster, (born 1946) Humanx Commonwealth novels, particularly those involving Flinx
- C. S. Friedman
G
- Neil Gaiman, (born 1960) The Books of Magic, numerous graphic novels
- Alan Garner, (born 1934) Elidor, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- Randall Garrett, (born 1927) Lord D'Arcy novels
- David Gemmell, (born 1948) Drenai novels
- Mary Gentle
- Terry Goodkind, (born 1948) Sword of Truth novels
H
- Traci Harding
- Barbara Hambly, (born 1951) Darwath novels
- Laurell K. Hamilton, (born 1963) Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
- Geraldine Harris
- M. John Harrison, (born 1945)
- Simon Hawke (born 1951)
- Tracy Hickman DragonLance novels
- Tom Holt, (born 1961) mostly humourous fantasy
- Robert E. Howard, (1906-1936) Originator of Conan the Barbarian
- P. C. Hodgell
- William Hope Hodgson, (1877-1918)
- Barry Hughart
I
J
- Brian Jacques, (born 1939) Redwall series
- Tove Jansson, (1914-2001) Moomin novels
- Robert Jordan, (born 1948) The Wheel of Time series
- Diana Wynne Jones, (born 1934) Chrestomanci series
K
- Guy Gavriel Kay, (born 1954) The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana
- Feliks W. Kres
- Katherine Kurtz, (born 1944) The Deryni novels
- Ellen Kushner
L
- Mercedes Lackey, (born 1950) Velgarth/Valdemar novels
- R.A. Lafferty, (1914-2002)
- Stephen R. Lawhead, (born 1950)
- Tanith Lee, (born 1947)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, (born 1929) Earthsea novels
- Fritz Leiber, (1910-1992) Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- Madeleine L'Engle, (born 1918)
- C.S. Lewis, (1898-1963) Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters
- Astrid Lindgren, (1907-2002)
- David Lindsay, (1876-1945)
- H. P. Lovecraft, (1890-1937) Cthulhu mythos stories
- Dave Luckett
- Elizabeth A. Lynn
M
- R. A. MacAvoy, (born 1949)
- Anne McCaffrey, (born 1926) Dragonriders of Pern novels and stories, Brainship stories
- George MacDonald, (1824-1905)
- Arthur Machen, (1863-1947)
- Patricia A. McKillip, (born 1948) The Riddlemaster of Hed
- Robin McKinley, Damar stories
- George R. R. Martin, (born 1948) Wild Cards anthologies
- Abraham Merritt, (1884-1943)
- Gustav Meyrink, (1868-1932)
- China Miéville, (born 1972)
- L. E. Modesitt, Jr (born 1943) Recluce novels
- Elizabeth Moon, (born 1945)
- Michael Moorcock, (born 1939) The Eternal Champion sequence
- Christopher Moore
- William Morris, (1834-1896), The Wood Between the Worlds
- H. Warner Munn, (1903-1981)
- Pat Murphy
N
- John Norman, (born 1931) Gor series
- Garth Nix, (born 1963) Sabriel and sequels
- Andre Norton, (born 1912) Witchworld stories
O
P
- Mervyn Peake, (1911-1968) Gormenghast
- Anne Perry, (born 1938)
- Meredith Ann Pierce
- Tamora Pierce, (born 1954) Tortall books, Circle of Magic books
- Tim Powers, (born 1952) The Anubis Gates
- Terry Pratchett, (born 1948) Discworld
- Fletcher Pratt, (1897-1956)
- Philip Pullman, (born 1946) His Dark Materials trilogy
Q
R
- Melanie Rawn (born 1954), Dragon Prince and Dragon Star novels
- Kim Stanley Robinson, (born 1952) Red/Green/Blue Mars sequence
- Joel Rosenberg, (born 1954) ''Guardians of the Flame series
- J. K. Rowling, (born 1965) Harry Potter books
- Matt Ruff
S
- R.A. Salvatore, (born 1959)
- Andrzej Sapkowski, (born 1948)
- Robert Sheckley, (born 1928)
- Will Shetterly
- Robert Silverberg, (born 1935)
- Johanna Sinisalo, (born 1958)
- Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
- Thorne Smith, (1892-1934)
- Mary Stewart, (born 1916)
- Caroline Stevermer
- Frank R. Stockton, (1834-1902)
- Somtow Sucharitkul, (pseudonym, S. P. Somtow)
- Thomas Burnett Swann, (1928-1976)
- Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745)
T
- Judith Tarr
- Sheri S. Tepper
- J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), Middle-earth: The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
- Harry Turtledove, (born 1949) Videssos series, Darkness series
U
V
- Jack Vance, (born 1916) (John Holbrook Vance) The Dying Earth series, the Demon Princes series
W
- Margaret Weis, DragonLance books
- Manly Wade Wellman, (1903-1986)
- T.H. White, (1906-1964) (Terence Hanbury White) The Once and Future King
- Jack Whyte, (born 1939)
- Tad Williams, (born 1957) Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
- Terri Windling, (born 1958)
- Gene Wolfe, (born 1931)
- Patricia Wrede Mairelon the Magician, the Lyra books
X
Y
- Nicholas Yermakov, (born 1951)
Z
- Roger Zelazny, (1937-1995) The Amber decalogy
See also
- List of horror fiction authors
- List of science fiction authors
- Lists of authors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of fantasy authors."
Synonyms: FantasySynonyms: fancy (n), illusion (n), phantasy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Noun: desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency. |
Imagination | Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fantasy |
| English words defined with "fantasy": confabulate ♦ daydream, dream, dreamer ♦ escape, escapism, escapist ♦ Fantasies, fantasy life ♦ latent content ♦ phantasy, phantasy life, pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle ♦ science fiction, stargaze ♦ The five wits, To play upon ♦ wishful thinker, woolgather, woolgathering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fantasy": filk, FOD. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fantasy": Fantasied. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fantasy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Frisian (fantasy). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know, while you were playing that just now, I had the craziest fantasy that I could rise up and float right down the end of this coronet, right through here, through these vales, right along this tube, and right up against your lips and give you a kiss (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) This is no fantasy - no careless product of wild imagination (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) Your boss is the chief executive of fantasy land (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Some fantasy. Nobody wants to see what's crawling under the rock of the American Dream (Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge; writing credit: Bernie Lefkowitz; Paul Brown) Typical male fantasy. Women drinking beer (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) | |
Lyrics | Is the illest fantasy (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW) I'm gonna have a fantasy (Love In An Elevator; performing artist: Aerosmith) I'm a blond single girl, in a fantasy world (Barbie Girl; performing artist: Aqua) I can be your fantasy (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David) 'cos I've been thrilled to fantasy one too many times ((I Just) Died In Your Arms; performing artist: Cutting Crew) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fantasy Girls (1974) Black Fantasy (1972) Fashion Fantasy (1972) Jack: A Flash Fantasy (1972) Santa's Fantasy Fair (1969) | |
Song Titles | What's Your Fantasy (performing artist: Ludacris) Fantasy (performing artist: Mariah Carey) Seattle (The Fantasy Reel) (performing artist: Peter Oshtrushko) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A political fantasy of 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Colors" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Screenshot from final fantasy viii." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Albert Einstein | When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. |
Iris Murdoch | But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | And, since it ceased in the hands of the German to express the struggle of one class with the other, he felt conscious of having overcome "French one-sidedness" and of representing, not true requirements, but the requirements of truth; not the interests of the proletariat, but the interests of Human Nature, of Man in general, who belongs to no class, has no reality, who exists only in the misty realm of philosophical fantasy. (reference) |
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| "Fantasy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.05% of the time. "Fantasy" is used about 1,263 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.05% | 1,251 | 6,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.71% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 0.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,263 | N/A |
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Expressions using "fantasy": fantasy life ♦ fantasy picture ♦ fantasy world. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fantasy": fantasy-adventure, fantasy-based, fantasy-comedy-drama, fantasy-forming, fantasy-heroic, fantasy-land, fantasy-language, fantasy-life, fantasy-self, fantasy-sensation, Fantasy-sonata, fantasy-style, fantasy-think, fantasy-time, fantasy-type, fantasy-wise, fantasy-world. | |
Ending with "fantasy": f-f-fantasy, half-fantasy, non-fantasy, power-fantasy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fantasy baseball | 30,546 | final fantasy x walk through | 1,082 |
final fantasy | 14,202 | fantasy art gallery | 1,060 |
fantasy | 13,636 | final fantasy origin | 1,034 |
fantasy art | 9,444 | yahoo fantasy sports | 1,030 |
fantasy football | 5,222 | fantasy golf | 1,004 |
final fantasy 7 | 5,121 | free fantasy baseball | 985 |
final fantasy x | 5,097 | final fantasy 11 | 958 |
yahoo fantasy baseball | 4,751 | fantasy dragon | 935 |
final fantasy 8 | 4,448 | final fantasy 7 walk through | 898 |
fantasy sport | 2,976 | fantasy fest | 885 |
final fantasy x 2 | 2,797 | fantasy poster | 857 |
final fantasy 10 | 2,566 | fantasy book | 827 |
final fantasy tactic | 2,264 | final fantasy 10 walk through | 809 |
final fantasy hentai | 2,113 | final fantasy x2 | 766 |
final fantasy xi | 1,807 | fantasy auto racing | 763 |
final fantasy 9 | 1,773 | fantasy unicorn | 734 |
fantasy picture | 1,395 | fantasy and sword | 721 |
final fantasy ix | 1,318 | final fantasy 8 walk through | 691 |
fantasy wallpaper | 1,091 | cheat fantasy final x | 665 |
fantasy art work | 1,084 | final fantasy 5 | 662 |
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| Language | Translations for "fantasy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fantazi (daydream, dream, fancy, fantasia, idea, imagination, make believe, phantasy), trill (caprice, crotchet, device, deviltry, fad, fancy, freak, kink, phantasy, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsy), përfytyrim (image, imagination, notion, phantasy, picture, reproduction, vision), imagjinatë (fancy, imagination, make believe, phantasy), ëndërrim (dream, fancy, phantasy, reverie). (various references) | |
Arabic | هوى (aerate, air, fan, freak, inclination, love, passion, phantasy, sentiment, vagary, whim), نزوة (caprice, crank, fancy, freak, heat, maggot, phantasy, quirk, vagary, whim, whimsy), وهم خداع (phantasy), تصور (be photographed, conceive, conception, envisage, ideation, imagination, imagine, phantasy, picture, project, see, suppose, vision, visualization, visualize), خيال جامح (phantasy), خيال (conceit, fiction, ghost, illusion, imagination, phantasy, shade, shadow, shape, silhouette, spectrum, spook, wraith), إبداع (creation, ingeniousness, ingenuity, magnum opus, novelty, originality, origination, phantasy), ثمرة من ثمرات الخيال (imagination, phantasy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | халюцинация (dream, hallucination, illusion), фантазиране, фантазия (daydream, dream, fairy tale, fancy, fantasia, imagination, invention, phantasy), въображение (fancy, imagination, invention, vision), оригинална идея, илюзия (deception, delusion, dream, glamor, glamour, illusion, maya, phantasm, phantasy, phantom, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Chinese | 空想 (fantisize; daydream), 幻想 (Delusional, Fantasies), 幻 . (various references) | |
Czech | fantazie (fancy, imagination, phantasy, pipe dream, vision). (various references) | |
Danish | fantasi. (various references) | |
Dutch | verbeeldingskracht, fantasie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | fantazio. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hugflog, heilaspuni (caprice, whim), dreymasjón. (various references) | |
Finnish | fantasia (fancy), mielikuvitus (fancy, imagination), haave (fancy, illusion). (various references) | |
French | fantaisie (fancy, fantasia), fantasme. (various references) | |
Frisian | fantasy, fantasij. (various references) | |
German | phantasie (fancy, fantasia, imagination, imaginativeness, invention, phantasy). (various references) | |
Greek | φαντασίωση, φαντασία (conceit, fancy, fiction, imagination, phantasy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאוה (desire, fancy, wish), פנטזיה, דמיון (correspondence, fancy, imagination, like, likeness, resemblance, semblance, similarity), דמיוניות (illusion), דמיוני (airy fairy, fabulous, fairy, fancied, fanciful, fictitious, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, phantom, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), בדאי (fabricated, false, fiction, lying). (various references) | |
Hungarian | képzelet (dirty mind, fancy, imagination, phantasy), fantázia (brains, fantasia, imagination, phantasy), furcsa rajz, agyrém (chimaera, chimera, phantasm, phantom), agyszülemény, bizarr díszítés, bizarr műalkotás, bizarr minta, bizarr rajz, csapongó képzelet, fantazmagória (moonshine, phantasm, phantasmagoria), ábránd (dream, fancy, fantasia, unreality), furcsa műalkotás, szeszély (caprice, fancy, fit, kink, maggot, tantrum, whim, whimsy), groteszk műalkotás, groteszk minta, hallucináció (delusion, hallucination), képzelődés (imaginings, phantasm), képzelőerő (brains, conception, power of conception), képzelőtehetség (brains), látomás (appearance, vision), szertelen ötlet, furcsa díszítés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | fantasi (fancy, grotesque, illusion, imagination), angan-angan (delusion, dream, notion, thought). (various references) | |
Italian | fantasia (daydream, fancy, fantasia, imagination, phantasy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 空想 (daydream, fancy, vision), ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy, fancy ball, fancy dress, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fanfare, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feeding, feet, foot, foundation, fumble, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom), 幻想曲 (fantasia), 夢幻 (dreams, visions). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ファンタジー , くうそう (daydream, fancy, noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces, vision), むげん (dreams, infinite, visions), ゆめまぼろし (dreams, visions), げんそうきょく (fantasia). (various references) | |
Korean | 환상 (Fantasies, Fantastic). (various references) | |
Manx | sheiltynys (concept, conjecture, fancy, hypothesis, presumption, speculation, supposition, theory), fansee. (various references) | |
Papiamen | fantasia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antasyfay.(various references) | |
Polish | fantazja. (various references) | |
Portuguese | fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasia, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasm, phantasy, reverie, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical). (various references) | |
Romanian | fantezie (day dream, fancy, fiction, freak, imagination, make believe, phantasy, reverie). (various references) | |
Russian | фантазия (chimera, crotchet, fancy, fantasia, make believe, moonshine, phantasia, phantasy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fantazija (fancy, fantasia, phantasy). (various references) | |
Spanish | fantasía (fancy, fantasia, phantasy). (various references) | |
Swedish | fantasi (extravaganza, fanciful, fancy, fantasia, imagination, imaginative power, make believe, make-believe, phantasy). (various references) | |
Turkish | fantezi (fancy, fantasia, flamboyance, phantasy), vehim (suspicion), kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fancy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), kurgu (editing, fiction, phantasy), imgelem (fancy, imagination, phantasy), hayal gücü (imagination, imaginativeness, phantasy, vision), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, vision, waking dream), düş (delusion, dream, fiction, pink elephant, reverie), acayip fikir (phantasy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | fantaziяa (r) (imagination). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уява (fancy, imagination, thought, vision, whimsey, whimsy), фантазія (crotchet, day dream, fancy, fantasia, imagination, moonshine, phantasy), примха (buzz, caprice, fad, fancy, freak, maggot, megrim, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsey, whimsy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khả năng tưởng tượng (phantasy), hình ảnh tưởng tượng sự trang trí quái dị (phantasy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phantasia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | somni, somnia, somnii, somnio, somniorum, somnium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fantasy": fantasying, fantasyland, fantasylands. (additional references) | |
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"Fantasy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantasi, fanasty, fanatasy, fangas, fantacy, fantasic, fantasie, fantask, fantes, fantesy, fanties, fantiesy, fantisy, fantsy, Fantuzzi, Rantisi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fantasy" (pronounced fa"ntusē or fa"nusē) |
| 4 | -t u s ē | courtesy, ecstasy. |
| 3 | -u s ē | accuracy, adequacy, advocacy, Argosy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, candidacy, celibacy, confederacy, conspiracy, degeneracy, delicacy, democracy, diplomacy, jealousy, legacy, embassy, fallacy, Geodesy, heresy, hypocrisy, idiocy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, immediacy, inaccuracy, inadequacy, intimacy, intricacy, legitimacy, leprosy, literacy, lunacy, meritocracy, obstinacy, Odyssey, papacy, pharmacy, piracy, pleurisy, policy, primacy, privacy, prophecy, secrecy, supremacy, surrogacy, theocracy. |
| 4 | -n u s ē | lunacy, obstinacy. |
| 3 | -u s ē | accuracy, adequacy, advocacy, Argosy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, candidacy, celibacy, confederacy, conspiracy, courtesy, degeneracy, delicacy, democracy, diplomacy, jealousy, legacy, ecstasy, embassy, fallacy, Geodesy, heresy, hypocrisy, idiocy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, immediacy, inaccuracy, inadequacy, intimacy, intricacy, legitimacy, leprosy, literacy, meritocracy, Odyssey, papacy, pharmacy, piracy, pleurisy, policy, primacy, privacy, prophecy, secrecy, supremacy, surrogacy, theocracy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-n-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: antas, antsy, nasty, satay, tansy. | |
-3 letters: anas, ansa, anta, ants, fans, fast, fats, fays, nays, stay, tans. | |
-4 letters: aas, aft, ana, ant, any, ays, fan, fas, fat, fay, nay, sat, say, sty, syn, tan, tas. | |
-5 letters: aa, an, as, at, ay, fa, na, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-n-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: safetyman. | |
+3 letters: fantasying. | |
+4 letters: craftsmanly, fantasyland, flamboyants. | |
+5 letters: fantasylands. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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