fancying

NOUN

conception

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appreciation conceit concept impression interpretation notion perception realization

STRONG

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

WEAK

cogitating communing concentrating considering deliberating envisaging imagining meditating mental grasp speculating

Antonyms

STRONG

concrete fact ignorance misunderstanding reality truth

WEAK

abortion being death

NOUN

daydream

Synonyms

STRONGEST

pipe dream reverie

STRONG

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

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONG

actuality certainty dislike existence fact hate reality substance truth

NOUN

fantasy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delusion fancy illusion nightmare reverie vision

STRONG

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

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

actuality certainty fact reality truth

NOUN

making

Synonyms

STRONGEST

formulation

STRONG

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

Antonyms

STRONG

destruction ruin

Example Sentences

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Just two days earlier, I’d been on the slopes in Vermont fancying myself a paragon of wellness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

From the outside, it would be understandable if you thought Scotland are fancying their chances this year, what with Glasgow Warriors tearing it up in the United Rugby Championship and Champions Cup.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

But the narrator—technologically astute and, by proxy, fancying herself a savvy reader of people—discerns the clandestine love story.

From Slate • May 27, 2024

While it’s not particularly difficult to find a film you’re fancying at any given moment, it’s not particularly easy, either.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023

“How I could so long a time be fancying myself!...” cried Harriet, warmly.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

fancying

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