FANTASY Synonyms

• a grotesque product of the imagination

• (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

• absentminded dreaming while awake

• have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

• have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake

• (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

• imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

• a cherished desire

• a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

• a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality

• someone or something wonderful

• have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

• experience while sleeping

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a contrived or fantastic idea

• illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder

• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

• an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode

• the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

• the ability to form mental images of things or events

• the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

• the creation of something in the mind

• a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

• the act of inventing

• imaginative intellectual play

• the enactment of a pretense

• imagined as in a play

• an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects

• something illusory and unattainable

• a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

• a ghostly appearing figure

• something existing in perception only

• absentminded dreaming while awake

• an abstracted state of absorption

• relating to languages derived from Latin

• the group of languages derived from Latin

• a relationship between two lovers

• an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

• a story dealing with love

• a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life

• make amorous advances towards

• have a love affair with

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• tell romantic or exaggerated lies

• a story about fairies; told to amuse children

• an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

• something many people believe that is false

• fiction with a large amount of imagination in it

• imagination unrestricted by reality

• not plain; decorative or ornamented

• something many people believe that is false

• imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

• a predisposition to like something

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for