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Fanciful vs Illusory - What's the difference?

fanciful | illusory |

As adjectives the difference between fanciful and illusory

is that fanciful is imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined while illusory is resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.

fanciful

English

Alternative forms

* fancifull * phanciful * phancifull

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined

    • Derived terms

    * fancifully * fancifulness

    illusory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal
    • Enron's profits were all illusory .

    Related terms

    * illusion * illusionary * illusive