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Uncountable vs Fantasy - What's the difference?

uncountable | fantasy |

As nouns the difference between uncountable and fantasy

is that uncountable is (linguistics) an uncountable noun while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.

As an adjective uncountable

is so many as to be incapable of being counted.

As a verb fantasy is

(literary|psychoanalysis) to fantasize (about).

uncountable

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) An uncountable noun.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • So many as to be incapable of being counted.
    • The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
  • (mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
    • Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable .
  • (grammar, of a noun) Describes a meaning of a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information .
    • Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
    One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.

    Antonyms

    * countable

    Hypernyms

    * (set theory) infinite

    Derived terms

    * uncountable noun * uncountable set * uncountably

    See also

    * (mathematics) infinite * (mathematics) innumerable * (linguistics) mass noun * (linguistics) singulare tantum *

    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 ----