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fantasist

fantasist noun: one who creates fantasies.

Noun

fantasist (plural fantasists)

  1. One who creates fantasies.
    • A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
  2. One living in a fantasy world.
    • I resurrect this piece as antidote, I hope, to the gripping lies of a cinematic fantasist who suffers delusions of reality.1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6
  3. A writer who writes in the fantasy style.
    • "Like the other fantasists dealt with in this volume, Rossetti used fantasy to subvert and undermine traditionalist notions, in this instance notions of male power and female submissiveness."1991, Kath Filmer, Kath Filmer-Davies, The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age

Forms of fantasist

pluralfantasists
alternative form (archaic)phantasist

Origin of fantasist

From fantas(y) + -ist.

Questions about fantasist

What does fantasist mean?
Fantasist means one who creates fantasies.
What part of speech is fantasist?
Fantasist is a noun.
What is the plural of fantasist?
The plural of fantasist is fantasists.

Words near fantasist in the dictionary

  1. fantasiser
  2. fantasisers
  3. fantasises
  4. fantasising
  5. fantasisings
  6. fantasist
  7. fantasists
  8. fantasization
  9. fantasizations
  10. fantasize
  11. fantasized

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