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The synonyms of “Fantasies” are: phantasy, fancy, illusion, fantasise, fantasize
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “fantasies” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| fancy | An unfounded or tentative belief or idea. Never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence. |
| illusion | A false idea or belief. They have the illusion that I am very wealthy. |
| phantasy | Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “fantasies” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| fantasise | Indulge in fantasies. |
| fantasize | Indulge in fantasies. He sometimes fantasized about emigrating. |
| chimerical | Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination. His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists. |
| daydream | Indulge in a daydream. She was lost in a daydream. |
| delusion | (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary. He has delusions of competence. |
| dream | Indulge in daydreams or fantasies about something greatly desired. I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe. |
| dreamer | A person who has lived in the US without official authorization since coming to the country as a minor. People of this description who met certain conditions would be eligible for a special immigration status under federal legislation first proposed in 2001. A rebellious young dreamer. |
| dreamland | Sleep regarded as a world of dreams. She tries to lull herself into dreamland. |
| envisage | Form a mental picture of (something not yet existing or known. The Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers. |
| envision | Picture to oneself; imagine possible. She envisioned the admiring glances of guests seeing her home. |
| escapism | The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy. Virtual reality offers a form of escapism. |
| fancied | Formed or conceived by the imagination. A fancied wrong. |
| fanciful | Having a curiously intricate quality. A fanciful mind. |
| fiction | A deliberately false or improbable account. They were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married. |
| hallucination | An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present. His dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination. |
| hallucinatory | Characterized by or characteristic of hallucination – Jean Stafford. A hallucinatory drug. |
| illusion | A false idea or belief. He had no illusions about the trouble she was in. |
| illusive | Based on or having the nature of an illusion. An illusive haven. |
| illusory | Based on illusion; not real. She knew the safety of her room was illusory. |
| imaginable | Capable of being imagined. The most spectacular views imaginable. |
| imaginary | (of a number or quantity) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number (usually the square root of −1, represented by i or j). Chris had imaginary conversations with her. |
| imagination | The ability to form mental images of things or events. A girl who existed only in my imagination. |
| imagine | Suppose or assume. I couldn t imagine what she expected to tell them. |
| ingratiate | Gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts. A sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy. |
| megalomania | A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur. |
| paranoia | A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur. Mild paranoia afflicts all prime ministers. |
| psychosis | A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. The symptoms of psychosis. |
| reverie | A fanciful or impractical idea or theory. He defended and explained all the reveries of astrology. |
| surreal | Having the qualities of surrealism bizarre. The incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature. |
| tale | A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program. She enjoyed hearing others tell their tales. |
| visionary | Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. Visionary dreams. |
| visualize | View the outline of by means of an X-ray. It is not easy to visualize the future. |
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