Definitions for phantasy

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phantasy phan·ta·sy

Spelling: [fan-tuh-see, -zee]

IPA: /ˈfæn tə si, -zi/

Phantasy is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in phantasy (aahnpsty).

Definitions for phantasy

noun

1. fantasy.
2. imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
3. the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.
4. a mental image, especially when unreal or fantastic; vision:
5. Psychology. an imagined or conjured up sequence fulfilling a psychological need; daydream.
6. a hallucination.
7. a supposition based on no solid foundation; visionary idea; illusion:
8. caprice; whim.
9. an ingenious or fanciful thought, design, or invention.
10. Also, fantasia. Literature. an imaginative or fanciful work, especially one dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters:
11. Music. fantasia (def 1).

adjective

1. noting or relating to any of various games or leagues in which fans assemble players of a professional sport into imaginary teams, and points are scored based on the performance of these players in real games:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to form mental images; imagine; fantasize.
2. Rare. to write or play fantasias.

Origin of phantasy

1275-1325; Middle English fantasie imaginative faculty, mental image (Anglo-French, Old French) Latin phantasia Greek phantasía an idea, notion, image, literally, a making visible; see

Examples for phantasy

If that were so, should we not be compelled to reject the whole of this as phantasy and deception?

It is a fine air, however, and lends itself to the phantasy of a musician.

He is a dreamer who struggles against the image of his phantasy.

Or was it some phantasy that Manitou had sent to bewilder him?

Beauty is no phantasy, it has the everlasting meaning of reality.

The phantasy of it could only be expressed by some huge ceremonial hoax.

Day and night her phantasy ran in one or other of these grooves.

The imagination, or phantasy, takes them to the rational soul.

He knew it was but a phantasy, but no phantasy was ever more horrible.

And if no dagger was there, they could at once see that 'twas phantasy.