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flight of fancy
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flight of fancy
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imaginative but unworkable idea |
| Synonyms: | creation of the brain, exaggeration, facon de parler, fish story, fumes of fancy, imagination, mind's eye, play of fancy, stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extravaganza |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spectacle |
| Synonyms: | caricature, display, divertissement, flight of fancy, pageant, parody, show, spectacular |
| 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: | castle in the air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wishful thinking |
| Synonyms: | air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the sky, daydream, dreamscape, fantasy, flight of fancy, fond illusion, fool's paradise, pipe dream, unrealistic goal |
| Main Entry: | cock-and-bull story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting but unbelievable story |
| Synonyms: | fanciful tale, farfetched story, fish story, flight of fancy, song and dance, tall story, tall tale, unbelievable tale |
| Main Entry: | tall tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farfetched story |
| Synonyms: | cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fable, fish story, flight of fancy, tall story, yarn |
| Main Entry: | hyperbolism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hog |
| Main Entry: | imaginativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination |
| 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 |
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