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Definition of Phantasy

1. Noun. Something many people believe that is false. "They have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

2. Noun. Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it. "She made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"

3. Noun. Imagination unrestricted by reality. "A schoolgirl fantasy"

Definition of Phantasy

1. n. See Fantasy, and Fancy.

Definition of Phantasy

1. Noun. (dated form of fantasy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phantasy

1. to fantasy [v -SIED, -SYING, -SIES] - See also: fantasy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phantasy

phantasmatomoria phantasmic phantasmically phantasmology phantasmophobia phantasmoscopia phantasms phantast phantastic phantastical

phantasticall phantastically phantastick phantastique phantasts phantasy (current term) phantasy life phantasy world phantasying phantom

phantom aneurysm phantom corpuscle phantom limb phantom limb pain phantom limb syndrome phantom limbs phantom orchid phantom pain phantom pains phantom pregnancy

Literary usage of Phantasy

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

1. The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul by Noah Porter (1869)
"In other words, from representation with recognition, we proceed to representation without recognition. The phantasy is conspicuous in reverie, dreaming, ..."

2. The Elements of Intellectual Science: A Manual for Schools and Colleges by Noah Porter (1874)
"In what are called the abnormal or disordered states of the soul—as somnambulism, and the various types and degrees of insanity—the phantasy has a more or ..."

3. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1879)
"phantasy is in fact the faculty, the power, to produce appearances, — that is, to form appearances for our consciousness, or to form images in our ..."

4. Elementary Psychology and Education: A Text-book for High Schools, Normal by Joseph Baldwin (1889)
"Self, as phantasy, does not create ideals, but merely conjoins ... These pictures we call phantasms, and the power to produce them we term phantasy. ..."

5. The Elements of Pedagogy: A Manual for Teachers, Normal Schools, Normal by Emerson Elbridge White (1886)
"phantasy. The tendency of the soul to repeat its former acts and states manifests itself in an interesting form of representation, called phantasy. ..."

6. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"For both Freud and Adler the phantasy is nothing but a so-called " symbolic " disguise of what both investigators suppose to be the primary propensities and ..."

7. Elements of Psychology by Noah Knowles Davis (1892)
"phantasy, therefore, is characterized by the impulsion of desire in the absence of ... wherein blind phantasy would fain interpret to the mind the painful ..."

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