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phantasize

phantasize is the archaic spelling of fantasize.

Meaning of fantasize

Verb

fantasize (third-person singular simple present fantasizes, present participle fantasizing, simple past and past participle fantasized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
    • I fantasized about my ideal date.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive, transitive) To portray in the mind, using fantasy.
    • Not that Mom and I didn't have our "shared experiences" — it's just that I'd like to forget most of them. I'd rather fantasize us together in that little cafe.1984 August 11, Janice Irvine, “Secrets of Fear, Shame, and Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 9

Forms of phantasize

third-person singular presentphantasizes
present participlephantasizing
past participlephantasized
pastphantasized

Words formed from phantasize

Questions about phantasize

What is phantasize the archaic spelling of?
Phantasize is the archaic spelling of fantasize.

Words near phantasize in the dictionary

  1. phantasised
  2. phantasises
  3. phantasising
  4. phantasist
  5. phantasists
  6. phantasize
  7. phantasized
  8. phantasizer
  9. phantasizers
  10. phantasizes
  11. phantasizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phantasize (page history and authors); fantasize (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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