Aspiration vs Fantasy - What's the difference?
aspiration | fantasy |
The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to or of)
The action of aspirating.
(phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
That which comes from one's imagination.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
A fantastical design.
* Hawthorne
(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
(literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
* 2013 , Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV
(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
As nouns the difference between aspiration and fantasy
is that aspiration is aspiration (burst of air that follows the release of some consonants) while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.As a verb fantasy is
(literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about).aspiration
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor
- Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game
Derived terms
* aspirational * aspirationalism * aspirationalistEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* aspirational * preaspirationExternal links
* * ----fantasy
English
(wikipedia fantasy)Alternative forms
* phantasie * phantasy (chiefly dated)Noun
(fantasies)- Is not this something more than fantasy ?
- A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory.
- Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
Derived terms
* high fantasy * low fantasyVerb
- Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
- (Cavendish)
- Which he doth most fantasy .