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fancying

NOUN

conception

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appreciation conceit concept impression interpretation notion perception realization

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apperception apprehension clue cognition comprehension consideration design dreaming explanation exposition fancy image inkling intellection meditation musing philosophizing picture plan representation speculation thought version

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cogitating communing concentrating considering deliberating envisaging imagining meditating mental grasp speculating

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concrete fact ignorance misunderstanding reality truth

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abortion being death

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daydream

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pipe dream reverie

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conceiving dream fancy imagination imagining musing phantasm phantasy stargazing trip vision wish woolgathering

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castle in the air figment of imagination fond hope fool's paradise head trip in a zone mind trip pie in the sky

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actuality certainty dislike existence fact hate reality substance truth

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fantasy

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delusion fancy illusion nightmare reverie vision

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Atlantis apparition appearance bubble chimera conceiving creativity daydream envisioning externalizing fabrication fairyland fantasia figment flight hallucination imaginativeness imagining invention mirage objectifying originality rainbow trip utopia vagary

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air castle flight of imagination fool's paradise head trip mind trip

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actuality certainty fact reality truth

NOUN

making

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formulation

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authoring building causation composition conception constituting construction contriving designing devising fabrication fashioning forging occasioning origination performing planning producing production shaping

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destruction ruin

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Fancying himself a cineaste, Kim was more obsessed with Shin, his idol.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2016

Fancying France today, 33-12 with Chabal hammering home a duo..

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2011

Fancying himself more as a constitutional lawyer than a politician, Ervin prefers browsing through obscure legal texts in his extensive law library to the back-room intrigue that is so popular among his brethren.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fancying himself a tragic poet, he works now & then on the first scene of a drama of which he is to be the hero.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fancying that the other man had noticed his surreptitious glance, he hastened once more into speech.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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