1 a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality<a constant daydreamer who started to believe his own fantasies>Synonymschimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, phantasm, pipe dream, unreality, visionRelated Wordsmirage; brainchild, idea; concoction, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualizationNear Antonymsactuality, fact, reality 2 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others<the painter gave free rein to his fantasy to create pictures that capture the kind of reality we experience only in our dreams>— see imagination 3 something that is the product of the imagination<we were coming to the conclusion that the person Karen “saw” in the woods was another one of her fantasies>— see fiction

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