fantasy

I

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Whimsical imagination]

Syn. reverie, daydream, flight of fancy, escape; see fancy 2 .

2. [Whimsical or fantastic creation]

Syn. vision, phantasm, invention, illusion, air castle, extravaganza, castle in Spain, flight, figment, fiction, Romance, conceit, chimera, mirage, apparition, will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus (Latin), bugbear, nightmare, hallucination, fantAsia, science fiction, utopia, Atlantis, fairyland, daydream, pipe dream*.

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

imagination, imagining, visualization, envisioning, dream, daydream, invention, *flight of fancy, *castle in the air, reverie, whimsy, conception, hallucination, chimera, *fool's paradise.

ANT.: reality, real world

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) also phantasy noun 1. The power of the mind to form images: fancy, imagination, imaginativeness. See REAL, THOUGHTS. 2. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea: creation, fiction, figment, invention, myth. See BELIEF, REAL. 3. A fantastic, impracticable plan or desire: bubble, castle in the air, chimera, dream, illusion, pipe dream, rainbow. See REAL. 4. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fancy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See REAL.