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Phantasy vs Fantasy - What's the difference?

phantasy | fantasy | Alternative forms |

Fantasy is a alternative form of phantasy.



As nouns the difference between phantasy and fantasy

is that phantasy is dated form of lang=en while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.

As a verb fantasy is

to fantasize (about).

phantasy

English

Noun

(phantasies)
  • * H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth :
    • … what man has hitherto known only in febrile phantasy and tenuous legend?
  • (psychology) The innate mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
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    • Usage notes

    In psychological writing, the spelling phantasy'' is often used to differentiate the Kleinian concept, which represents an innate unconscious process, from the related Freudian concept ''fantasy'', with is conscious and deliberate.''Internal Objects Revisited by Joseph Sandler, Anne-Marie Sandler, page xii

    References

    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 ----