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Dreams vs Fantasy - What's the difference?

dreams | fantasy |

As nouns the difference between dreams and fantasy

is that dreams is while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.

As verbs the difference between dreams and fantasy

is that dreams is (dream) while fantasy is (literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about).

dreams

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (dream)
  • fantasy

    Alternative forms

    * phantasie * phantasy (chiefly dated)

    Noun

    (fantasies)
  • That which comes from one's imagination.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Is not this something more than fantasy ?
  • * Milton
  • A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory.
  • (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
  • A fantastical design.
  • * Hawthorne
  • Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
  • (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • Derived terms

    * high fantasy * low fantasy

    Verb

  • (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
  • * 2013 , Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
  • (Cavendish)
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
  • Which he doth most fantasy .

    See also

    * fancy ----