Fantasy vs Technothriller - What's the difference?
fantasy | technothriller |
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 genre of thriller combining action, fantasy, and science fiction elements, including detailed technical explanations.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 3, author=Dennis Lim, title=In Familial Bric-a-Brac, Finding Himself, work=New York Times
, passage=Few filmmakers have his feel for the flux and transience of life as we live it, and his movies are especially eloquent in depicting the passage of time, whether it’s the one-year period of awkward realignments among a constellation of Parisian friends in “Late August, Early September” (1998) or the entire life cycle of a marriage in the period epic “Les Destinées Sentimentales” (2000) or even the jet-lagged permanent-present tense of the technothriller “Demonlover” (2002). }}
As nouns the difference between fantasy and technothriller
is that fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination while technothriller is a genre of thriller combining action, fantasy, and science fiction elements, including detailed technical explanations.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 .
See also
* fancy ----technothriller
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia technothriller)citation