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chimera
[ki-meer-uh, kahy-] 
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chimera
[ki-meer-uh, kahy-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream, fantasy |
| Synonyms: | bogy, bubble, delusion, fabrication, fancy, fata morgana, figment, fool's paradise, hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, monster, monstrosity, pipe dream, rainbow*, snare, specter, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
| Synonyms: | big eyes, chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, imaginativeness, inclination, invention, itch, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky, pipe dream, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, romancing, sweet tooth, vision, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | fantasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination, dream |
| Synonyms: | Atlantis, Utopia, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment, flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, illusion, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mind trip, mirage, nightmare, objectifying, originality, rainbow*, reverie, trip, vagary, vision |
| Notes: | fantasy is imagination unrestricted by reality; phantasm is a ghostly appearing figure or something existing in perception only |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | freak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something, someone very abnormal |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abortion, anomaly, chimera, curiosity, geek*, grotesque, malformation, miscreation, misshape, monster, monstrosity, mutant, mutation, oddity, queer, rarity, sport, weirdo* |
| Antonyms: | normality, ordinary, regular |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creative thought, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy, idea, ideality, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, inventiveness, mental agility, notion, originality, perceptibility, realization, resourcefulness, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, unreality, verve, vision, visualization, wit, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
| Main Entry: | phantom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost; figment of the imagination |
| Synonyms: | apparition, chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, eidolon, figment, hallucination, haunt, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, nightmare, phantasm, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, spook, vision, wraith |
| Antonyms: | reality |
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