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phantasie

phantasie is the obsolete spelling of fantasy.

Meaning of fantasy

Noun

fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

  1. That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.
    • Is not this something more than fantasy?c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, London, act 1, scene 1
  2. The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
  3. A fantastical design.
    • Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter
  4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

See all 8 meanings of fantasy

Forms of phantasie

Noun
pluralphantasies
Verb
third-person singular presentphantasies
present participlephantasying
past participlephantasied
pastphantasied

Questions about phantasie

What is phantasie the obsolete spelling of?
Phantasie is the obsolete spelling of fantasy.

Words near phantasie in the dictionary

  1. phantasiacs
  2. phantasias
  3. phantasiast
  4. phantasiastic
  5. phantasiasts
  6. phantasie
  7. phantasied
  8. phantasies
  9. phantasim
  10. phantasims
  11. phantasise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phantasie (page history and authors); fantasy (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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