fancy
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- noun
- /ˈfænsi/
- Literature
- John Keats gives life to philosophical descriptions of fancy in his poem, "Fancy" (1820).
- a flight of fancy
- fact rather than fancy
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Watch on YouTubeBut the, the, the English speaking world has always been very empirical and not really given to tremendous flights of fancy.
- But the, the, the English speaking world has always been very empirical and not really given to tremendous flights of fancy.
- I would have been this most ridiculous, a flight of fancy hallucination.
Examples
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Indeed, it is the medium of fancy that allows her to picture the aerial vista.
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The emphasis in Wordsworth's definition, however, is on fancy's playfulness and ephemerality.
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"Is love a fancy or a feeling?
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It's just my fancy, I suppose, but you remind me a bit of her.
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It's now your duty to sit down and try and separate the facts from the fancy.
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All my life was lived on the periphery, the ramblings of a young man's fancy.
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Coleridge provides a dynamic example of fancy's "excursions" in a 1799 entry of his Notebooks.
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Many great stories begin with a flight of fancy that takes readers to extraordinary places.
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As a child, I often created elaborate worlds from my fancy, filled with magical creatures.
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His poetry often reflects the beauty of human fancy and the ability to dream beyond reality.
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Etymology
Fancy meaning 'imagination' comes straight from the Greek phantasia and the English word fantasy, both meaning 'the power to form images in the mind'. So, when writers speak of 'fancy' they mean the creative pictures and ideas you can make in your head.