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Existence vs Fantasy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between existence and fantasy

is that existence is the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.

As a verb fantasy is

(literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about).

existence

English

(wikipedia existence)

Noun

  • The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
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  • Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)

    • Antonyms

    * nothingness

    Derived terms

    * nonexistence

    Related terms

    * exist * aseity * existential

    fantasy

    English

    (wikipedia 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.

    • Related terms

    * fantasize

    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 ----