noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ mere , pure , sheer , total
▪
Most of what they told us was pure ~.
▪ ultimate
▪
the ultimate human ~: being able to fly
▪ utopian
▪ wild
▪
She dismissed the idea as a wild ~.
▪ escapist
▪ paranoid
▪ violent
▪ revenge
▪
She was seething with anger and filled with revenge fantasies.
▪ personal , private , secret
▪ childhood , childish
▪ adolescent
▪ erotic , romantic , sexual
▪ male
VERB + FANTASY
▪ enjoy , entertain , have , indulge in
▪
She didn't entertain silly fantasies about love at first sight.
▪
They indulge in teenage fantasies about being the greatest rock band in the world
▪ build , create , weave
▪
She had woven a whole ~ about living near the coast.
▪ feed , feed off , fuel
▪ act out
▪
Children can act out their fantasies in a secure environment.
▪ fulfil/fulfill , indulge , live , live out , play out , satisfy
▪
My childhood fantasies were finally fulfilled.
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He was willing to indulge her wildest fantasies.
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He was able to play out his ~ of rock stardom.
FANTASY + NOUN
▪ life
▪ land , realm , world
▪
You're living in a ~ world.
▪ figure
▪
children that project their own identities onto ~ figures
▪ adventure , book , film , game , genre , movie , novel , story , writer
▪ baseball , basketball , football , sports ( esp. AmE )
▪ league , team
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ about
▪
She had a ~ about going to live on a South Pacific island.
▪ ~ of
▪
adolescent fantasies of power, glory and recognition
PHRASES
▪ the realm of ~ ( esp. AmE ), the realms of ~ ( BrE )
▪
The idea belonged in the realms of ~.
▪ a world of ~
▪
She felt she had entered a world of ~.