fantasy
幻想,梦幻,幻象,幻觉
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Definitions
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plural fan·ta·sies.
- : imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- : the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing.
- : a mental image, especially when unreal or fantastic; vision: a nightmare fantasy.
- : Psychology. an imagined or conjured up sequence fulfilling a psychological need; daydream.
- : a hallucination.
- : a supposition based on no solid foundation; visionary idea; illusion: dreams of Utopias and similar fantasies.
- : caprice; whim.
- : an ingenious or fanciful thought, design, or invention.
- : Also fantasia. Literature. an imaginative or fanciful work, especially one dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters: The stories of Poe are fantasies of horror.
- : Music. fantasia.
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Examples
Our fantasies, though, are of the restaurant experience returned to normal.
Today’s tech capabilities are nowhere near any of those fantasies.
Tasmania might seem farther away than ever right now, and while cooking with How Wild Things Are won’t bring it any closer, it makes part of the fantasy of travel — experiencing the food of a place — real, if only for a moment.
As a sop to her sad diet, she indulges in mommy-centric sexual fantasies about an older female colleague.
There are robust communities online dedicated to LARPing, live-action role-playing events in which people gather offline and pretend to be fantasy heroes.
But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
That fantasy, however, is still heavily regimented by all sorts of norms.
A lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.
What do you think is the best fantasy work that has not been adapted that should?
I harbor a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, just like anybody, and I welcomed the challenge.
I have a mild grievance against that talented lady, Miss Marjorie Bowen, for labelling her latest novel "a romantic fantasy."
The monograph on the Sunshade, called by the author ‘a little tumbled ,’ occupies fully one-half of the volume.