I. noun
1.
Synonyms: will 1, inclination, liking, mind, pleasure, velleity
2.
Synonyms: caprice , bee, boutade, conceit, crotchet, freak, humor, megrim, vagary, whim
Related Word: idea; irrationality, unreasonableness; contrariness, perverseness
3.
Synonyms: imagination , fantasy ( or phantasy), imaginativeness
Related Word: envisagement, envisioning, objectification
Idioms: flight of fancy
Contrasted words: awareness, experience, perception
4.
an idea or image present in the mind but having no concrete or objective reality
unable to tell fact from fancy
Synonyms: daydream, dream, fantasy ( or phantasy), nightmare, phantasm, vision
Related Word: fable, fabrication, fiction, figment, invention; concept, conception, idea, notion; chimera, delusion, illusion; fata morgana, hallucination, mirage
Idioms: figment of the imagination
Contrasted words: actuality, fact, reality
II. verb
1.
Synonyms: like
Related Word: approve, endorse, sanction
Idioms: have a fancy ( or hankering) for; have one's heart set on
Contrasted words: deprecate, disapprove; abhor, abominate, detest, dislike, hate, loathe
2.
Synonyms: think 1, conceive, envisage, envision, feature, image, imagine, realize, vision, visualize
Contrasted words: demonstrate, prove, test, try
III. adjective
Synonyms: elaborate 2, complicated, intricate