FANTASY

I. noun also phantasy (plural -sies) see: fancy Date: 14th century hallucination , fancy , a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: as, a fanciful design or invention, a chimerical or fantastic notion, fantasia 1, imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters, caprice , the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need , a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (as a government-in-exile), II. verb (-sied; -sying) Date: 15th century fantasize