FANTASY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for FANTASY?

Need another word that means the same as “fantasy”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “fantasy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Fantasy” are: phantasy, fancy, illusion, imagination, creativity, invention, originality, vision, speculation, make-believe, daydreaming, reverie, dream, daydream, pipe dream, flight of fancy, wish, wishful thinking, myth, legend, fable, fairy tale, romance, fantasise, fantasize

Fantasy as a Noun

Definitions of "Fantasy" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “fantasy” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person often dwells and which reflects their conscious or unconscious wishes.
• A fantasia.
• Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it.
• A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.
• An idea with no basis in reality.
• Imagination unrestricted by reality.
• The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.
• Denoting a competition or league in which participants select imaginary teams from among the players in a real sports league and score points according to the actual performance of their players.
• Something many people believe that is false.

Synonyms of "Fantasy" as a noun (23 Words)

creativity	The ability to create. Firms are keen to encourage creativity.
daydream	Absentminded dreaming while awake. She was lost in a daydream.
daydreaming	Absentminded dreaming while awake.
dream	A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal. I had a dream about you last night.
fable	A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. Believers accused the cosmologists of inventing fables on the birth of the universe.
fairy tale	Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.
fancy	A small iced cake. I ve a fancy they want to be alone.
flight of fancy	An instance of traveling by air.
illusion	A false idea or belief. The illusion of family togetherness.
imagination	The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses. She d never been blessed with a vivid imagination.
invention	The act of inventing. His powers of invention were rather limited.
legend	A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated. A screen legend.
make-believe	Imaginative intellectual play.
myth	A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people. The belief that evening primrose oil helps to cure eczema is a myth according to dermatologists.
originality	The quality of being novel or unusual. He congratulated her on the originality of her costume.
phantasy	Something many people believe that is false.
pipe dream	A tubular wind instrument.
reverie	A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream. His own compositions can move from impressionist reveries to an orchestral chordal approach.
romance	A short informal piece. The Arthurian romances.
speculation	A hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence. This is pure speculation on my part.
vision	The images seen on a television screen. She had defective vision.
wish	A thing that is or has been wished for. The petitioners eventually got their wish.
wishful thinking	A polite expression of desire for someone’s welfare.

Usage Examples of "Fantasy" as a noun

• He's my second-round draft choice in fantasy baseball this year.
• It is a misleading fantasy to suggest that the bill can be implemented.
• A fantasy world.
• Look at their dedication to fantasy leagues and the enormous minutiae of the stats they memorize.
• His researches had moved into the realms of fantasy.
• A schoolgirl fantasy.
• The notion of being independent is a child's ultimate fantasy.

Fantasy as a Verb

Definitions of "Fantasy" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “fantasy” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Indulge in fantasies.
• Imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about.

Synonyms of "Fantasy" as a verb (2 Words)

fantasise	Indulge in fantasies.
fantasize	Imagine (something that one wants to happen. One might fantasize the death of someone seen as a threat.

Usage Examples of "Fantasy" as a verb

• It is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb.

Associations of "Fantasy" (30 Words)

chimerical	Being or relating to or like a chimera. His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.
daydream	Have a daydream indulge in a fantasy. Stop daydreaming and pay attention.
delusion	An idiosyncratic belief or impression maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder. What a capacity television has for delusion.
dream	See hear or feel something in a dream. This is not at all how she dreamed her baby s birthday was going to be.
dreamer	A person who is unpractical or idealistic. A rebellious young dreamer.
dreamland	An imagined and unrealistically ideal world. She tries to lull herself into dreamland.
envisage	Contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event. The Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers.
envision	Picture to oneself; imagine possible. I cannot envision him as President.
escapism	The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy. His alcohol problem was a form of escapism.
fancied	Formed or conceived by the imagination. A fancied wrong.
fanciful	Not based on fact; existing only in the imagination. The falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties.
fiction	Something that is invented or untrue. The notion of the country being a democracy is a polite fiction.
hallucination	Illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder. He continued to suffer from horrific hallucinations.
hallucinatory	Of or resembling a hallucination. A hallucinatory drug.
illusion	The act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas. He had no illusions about the trouble she was in.
illusive	Deceptive; illusory. An illusive haven.
illusory	Based on or having the nature of an illusion. Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy.
imaginable	Capable of being imagined. The most spectacular views imaginable.
imaginary	Not based on fact; existing only in the imagination. A small child s imaginary friends.
imagination	The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses. Her story captured the public s imagination.
imagine	Form a mental image or concept of. I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel.
ingratiate	Bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. A sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy.
megalomania	A psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur.
paranoia	A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an organized system. It may be an aspect of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality. Mild paranoia afflicts all prime ministers.
psychosis	Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted. They were suffering from a psychosis.
reverie	An abstracted state of absorption. A knock on the door broke her reverie.
surreal	Having the qualities of surrealism bizarre. A surreal mix of fact and fantasy.
tale	A trivial lie. A delightful children s tale.
visionary	A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like. Visionary dreams.
visualize	Imagine; conceive of; see in one’s mind. With this machine ultrasound can be visualized.