Synonyms and related words :
Marchen, Walter Mitty, Western, Western story, Westerner, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, adventure story, alienation, allegory, apologue, apparition, appearance, ardor, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, be absent, bedtime story, bemusement, bizarrerie, blame-shifting, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, brown study, bubble, capriccio, caprice, castle-building, chimera, compensation, conceit, conceiving, concoction, concupiscence, crank, craze, crazy idea, creativity, crotchet, curiosity, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, decompensation, defense mechanism, delirium, delusion, depth of thought, dereism, dereistic thinking, desideration, desire, detective story, displacement, dissociation, divagate, dream, dream of, dreaming, drive, eagerness, eidolon, emotional insulation, enchantment, engrossment, envisioning, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fable, fabliau, fad, fairy tale, fancy, fantasizing, fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasticism, fantasying, ferlie, fiction, figment, figure, fit of abstraction, flight, flight of fancy, flimflam, folk story, folktale, fool notion, form, freak, freak out, freakish inspiration, fumes of fancy, gest, ghost story, go woolgathering, grotesquerie, hallucination, harebrained idea, hope, horme, horse opera, humor, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, image, imagery, imagination, imaginativeness, imagining, insubstantial image, intellectual curiosity, invention, inventiveness, isolation, kink, legend, libido, love story, lust for learning, maggot, make-believe, masquerade, megrim, mind, miracle, mirage, moon, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, need, negativism, nightmare, notion, nursery tale, originality, overcompensation, parable, passing fancy, passion, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, pipe, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming, pleasure, pleasure principle, preoccupation, presence, prodigy, projection, psychotaxis, quirk, rainbow, rationalization, resistance, reverie, romance, science fiction, sexual desire, shade, shadow, shape, shocker, sick fancy, sign, sociological adjustive reactions, space fiction, space opera, specter, stargaze, stargazing, stray, study, sublimation, substitution, suspense story, thick-coming fancies, thirst for knowledge, thriller, toy, trance, trip, urge, vagary, vapor, vision, waking dream, wander, want, wanting, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whodunit, wildest dream, wildest dreams, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, wonder, wonderwork, woolgathering, work of fiction, wraith