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fantasies

NOUN

imagination, dream

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delusion fancy illusion nightmare reverie vision

STRONG

Atlantis apparition appearance bubble chimera conceiving creativity daydream envisioning externalizing fabrication fairyland fancying 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

Example Sentences

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We’re starting to get a sense that at least some of these promises aren’t fantasies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Prosecutor Nicholas de la Poer KC described the fantasies as "seething with hatred".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

The last section covers the modern fantasies about samurai that developed at home and abroad after the bushi class’s abolishment, a result of Japan’s transition from shogunate rule to a Western-style constitutional monarchy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

For the public’s purposes, she was a cipher onto which we were urged to project our romantic fantasies.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

It never occurred either to him or to Fernanda to think that their correspondence was an exchange of fantasies.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez