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Fantasy vs Fantast - What's the difference?

fantasy | fantast |

In obsolete terms the difference between fantasy and fantast

is that fantasy is to have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like while fantast is one whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful.

As nouns the difference between fantasy and fantast

is that fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination while fantast is one whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful.

As a verb fantasy

is 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 ----

    fantast

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful.
    • (Coleridge)