Definition of Fantasist

1. Noun. A creator of fantasies.

Generic synonyms: Creator
Derivative terms: Fantasy, Fantasy

Definition of Fantasist

1. Noun. One who creates fantasies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fantasist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fantasist

fantails
fantan
fantard
fantards
fantasia
fantasias
fantasie
fantasied
fantasies
fantasise
fantasised
fantasiser
fantasisers
fantasises
fantasising
fantasist (current term)
fantasists
fantasize
fantasized
fantasizer
fantasizers
fantasizes
fantasizing
fantasm
fantasmal
fantasms
fantast
fantastic
fantastical
fantasticalities

Literary usage of Fantasist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"We see Mercutio in his first scene as a wit and fantasist of the most delicate order. In his next, apparently without any shock to the Elizabethan sense of ..."

2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthlyby William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1905)
"An Artist in Fantasy O HENRY, a fantasist of fiction, will add t: the gaiety of nations and the peculiar pleasure of fiction followers, as they will observe ..."

3. Essays on English Literature by Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer (1891)
"... the unrestrained fantasist and the exalted sage, had been admired by turns ; but the genius had been unceasingly declared unique and incomparable. ..."

4. The Drama of Yesterday & To-day by Clement Scott (1899)
"... with dresses designed by Alfred Thompson, ex- cavalry officer and fantasist, a popular, gentlemanly, highly educated "Jack of all trades" but who I fear ..."

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