fantasy

fantasy
n
1. imagination, originality, creativity, resourcefulness, inventiveness, fancy.
2. image, conception, conceptualization, perception, reflection; vision, dream, fancy, daydream; hallucination, illusion, phantasmagoria, mirage, vapor, delusion; phantasm, shadow, specter, chimera, hobgoblin, phantom; aberration, haunt, Archaic. maggot, fear, horror, haunting fear, nightmare.
3. whimsy, whim, caprice, figment, flight, flight of fancy, notion, vagary, conceit; drollery, craziness, crazy notion or idea, Inf. screwball or wacky idea; im-plausibility, unlikelihood, peculiar notion.
4. myth, legend, romance, mystery, adventure, fairy tale; horror story, ghost story, spooky tale, Inf. chiller, Inf. thriller, Sl. hair-raiser, Inf. spine-tingler; science fiction; farce, absurdity, nonsense, wild story, tall tale, whopper, folk story; All Music. fantasia, potpourri, medley.

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