Fantasy vs Superbeing - What's the difference?
fantasy | superbeing |
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)
comic books: a superhero or supervillain
fantasy: a mage, sorcerer, witch or wizard
fiction: a superhuman or non-human being (animal, monster or plant)
mythology, religion: an angel, deity, demigod, demon or hero
As nouns the difference between fantasy and superbeing
is that fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination while superbeing is comic books: a superhero or supervillain.As a verb fantasy
is (literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (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 .