fantasy
A fantasy is something you imagine, which might involve dragons, unicorns, or an imaginary best friend. If you live in a fantasy world, you’re not worrying much about reality — pleasant, maybe, but not very practical.
Fantasy is dreams and imagination. In a football fantasy league, you can create your own dream team. In literature, fantasy — a genre similar to science fiction — might include a story about a three-headed squirrel and a bionic aardvark who fall in love on a planet made entirely of strawberries. Romance can be fantasy, too, according to a Billy Joel song: “It’s just a fantasy. It’s not the real thing. But sometimes a fantasy is all you need.”
imagination unrestricted by reality
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dream, pipe dreama fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
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fantasy life, phantasy lifean imaginary life lived in a fantasy world
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fairyland, fantasy world, phantasy worldsomething existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
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paracosma prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history
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imagination, imaginativeness, visionthe formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
“she made a lot of money writing romantic
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science fictionliterary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
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cyberpunka genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies
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fictiona literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
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science fiction
something many people believe that is false
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bubblean impracticable and illusory idea
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ignis fatuus, will-o’-the-wispan illusion that misleads
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wishful thinkingthe illusion that what you wish for is actually true
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misconceptionan incorrect conception
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bubble
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