Dreams vs Fantasy - What's the difference?
dreams | fantasy |
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 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).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 .