■ noun ( plural fantasies )
1》 the faculty or activity of imagining improbable things.
↘a pleasant or desirable imaginary situation: the notion of being independent is a child's ultimate ~.
↘an idea with no basis in reality.
2》 a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure.
3》 a fantasia.
■ verb ( fantasies , ~ing , fantasied ) literary fantasize about.
Origin
ME: from OFr. fantasie , from L. phantasia , from Gk 'imagination, appearance', later 'phantom', from phantazein (see fantastic ).