Fantasy vs Story - What's the difference?
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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 sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
* Ed. Rev.
* Sir W. Temple
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(chiefly, US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , chapter I:
(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
(obsolete) History.
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
* Shakespeare
* Bishop Wilkins
Fantasy is a related term of story.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between fantasy and story
is that fantasy is (obsolete) to have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like while story is (obsolete) history.As nouns the difference between fantasy and story
is that fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination while story is a sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.As verbs the difference between fantasy and story
is that fantasy is (literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about) while story is to tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.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 ----story
English
Alternative forms
* storie (obsolete), storeyNoun
(stories)- Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story
- The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story .
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- The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
- who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story , that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.
Usage notes
* (soap opera) Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as "continuing stories", the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.Synonyms
* (account) tome * (lie) See * (floor) floor, level * (soap opera) soap opera, serial * narrativeDerived terms
* Banbury story of a cock and a bull * bedtime story * chain story * cock-and-bull story * cover story * end of story * fish story * ghost story * horror story * just-so story * likely story * love story * my stories * shaggy-dog story * short short story * short story * sob story * storiation * story editor * storybook * storyline * story of my life * storyteller * storytelling * success story * tall story * to cut a long story short * war storyVerb
- How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
- It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.