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Fantasy vs Animation - What's the difference?

fantasy | animation |

As nouns the difference between fantasy and animation

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

As a verb fantasy

is (literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about).

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 ----

    animation

    English

    (wikipedia animation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
  • * 1647 , , Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members'', as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), ''The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:
  • * by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.
  • (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
  • The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
    • He recited the story with great animation .
  • The condition of being animate or alive.
  • * Landor
    • Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation .
  • (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
  • * 1992 , Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean , page 291:
    • "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

    Synonyms

    * (the act of breathing life into something ) vitalization, vivification, enlivenment * (the state of being lively ) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity * (the condition of being alive ) life

    Derived terms

    (Animation) * deanimation * disanimation * reanimation * suspended animation

    Descendants

    * Japanese: ) (borrowed)

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -tion ----