Synonyms for fantasy
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.
Related words
- Word family
- fantastic fantasize
- Phrases
- fantasy baseball fantasy land fantasy world fantasy casket fantasy coffin fantasy sports
- Other spellings
- phantasy
Forms
- Plural
- fantasies → fancies, dreams, illusions, imaginations…
Choose the right word
To this Reproductive Imagination President Noah Porter and others have given the name of phantasy or fantasy (many psychologists preferring the former spelling). Fantasy in ordinary usage simply denotes capricious or erratic fancy, as appears in the adjective fantastic.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- dream The time will come when your dream will come true.
- imagination Don't underestimate the power of your imagination.
- illusion This created an illusion that was hard to explain.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| fantasy | rising | |
| dream | rising | |
| imagination | rising | |
| illusion | rising | |
| phantasm | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- idea3, whim1
- 5 letters
- dream1, fancy2, vapor2
- 6 letters
- vision2, vapour
- 7 letters
- chimera3, caprice2
- 8 letters
- illusion3, phantasm3
- 11 letters
- imagination5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idea3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- fantaisie
- Español
- fantasía
- Deutsch
- Einbildungskraft
- Català
- fantasia