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paleofantasy

paleofantasy noun: a fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.

Noun

paleofantasy (plural paleofantasies)

  1. (rare) A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.
    • That’s just a paleofantasy about the future.2009 January 20, Marlene Zuk, “The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past”, in New York Times

Forms of paleofantasy

pluralpaleofantasies

Origin of paleofantasy

From paleo- + fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.

Questions about paleofantasy

What does paleofantasy mean?
Paleofantasy means a fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.
What part of speech is paleofantasy?
Paleofantasy is a noun.
What is the plural of paleofantasy?
The plural of paleofantasy is paleofantasies.

Words near paleofantasy in the dictionary

  1. paleoethology
  2. paleoevolution
  3. paleoevolutionary
  4. paleofaeces
  5. paleofantasies
  6. paleofantasy
  7. paleofault
  8. paleofauna
  9. paleofaunal
  10. paleofecal
  11. paleofeces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paleofantasy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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