Fantasy vs Daydream - What's the difference?
fantasy | daydream |
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)
A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
As nouns the difference between fantasy and daydream
is that fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination while daydream is a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.As verbs the difference between fantasy and daydream
is that fantasy is to fantasize (about) while daydream is to have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.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 .
See also
* fancy ----daydream
English
(wikipedia daydream)Noun
(en noun)Verb
- Stop daydreaming and get back to work!