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fantasy | incredible |

As a noun fantasy

is that which comes from one's imagination.

As a verb fantasy

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

As an adjective incredible is

incredible.

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 ----

    incredible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.
  • * 1980 September 16, (w), quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does , University of California Press (1990, 1993), ISBN 0-520-06134-9, page 29:
    • I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 796:
    • He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.
  • Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
    • He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.
  • Marvelous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.
    • I had such an incredible slice of pizza last night that I simply can't think about anything else.

    Synonyms

    * unbelievable

    Related terms

    * credibility * credible * creed * incredibility * incredibly