phantasy world
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- noun
- /ˈfæn.tə.si wɜrld/
- Archaic
- As a child, Sarah often retreated into her own phantasy world to escape reality.
Examples
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He lives in a phantasy world, unable to accept the truth about his situation.
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The novel explores a phantasy world created by the protagonist's vivid imagination.
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She often escapes to her phantasy world when life gets tough.
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In his phantasy world, he is a superhero.
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As a child, Sarah often retreated into her own phantasy world to escape reality.
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He lives in a phantasy world, unable to accept the truth about his situation.
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The novel explores a phantasy world created by the protagonist's vivid imagination.
Synonyms
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An imagined place in your mind with magic and strange creatures
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A beautiful imaginary place in stories where small magical creatures live
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A place in your mind where you imagine things
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An imaginary place where everything is perfect and magical
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An imagined perfect place that exists only in dreams
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Ability to imagine unreal people, places or events
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An imagined life a person makes in their mind to escape real life
Antonyms
How Imaginary
- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a world that exists only in one's imagination' is directly and transparently composed from 'phantasy' (imaginative fiction) + 'world' (a realm or sum of experiences). This compositional pattern (as in the common variant 'fantasy world') is cross-linguistically familiar and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Phantasy world comes from the idea of a whole phantasy, an imagined story, and world, a place, that a person makes inside their mind. So when someone is said to be in a phantasy world, they are thinking the imagined place is real, meaning 'a world that exists only in someone's imagination' or 'unable to accept the truth'.