n. Function: noun
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Synonyms: WILL 1, inclination, liking, mind, pleasure, velleity
2
Synonyms: CAPRICE , bee, boutade, conceit, crotchet, freak, humor, megrim, vagary, whim
Related Words: idea; irrationality, unreasonableness; contrariness, perverseness
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Synonyms: IMAGINATION , fantasy ( or phantasy), imaginativeness
Related Words: 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 FF1C; unable to tell fact from fancy FF1E;
Synonyms: daydream, dream, fantasy ( or phantasy), nightmare, phantasm, vision
Related Words: 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