Phantasy vs. Fantasy: What's the Difference?

Dated form of fantasy

The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.

(psychology) The innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.

Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.

Dated form of fantasy

A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.

See Fantasy, and Fancy.

A genre of fiction or other artistic work characterized by fanciful or supernatural elements.

Something many people believe that is false;

A work of this genre.

Fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it;

An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need.

Imagination unrestricted by reality;

An unrealistic or improbable supposition.

(Music) See fantasia.

A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency.

(Obsolete) A hallucination.

Relating to or being a game in which participants act as owners of imaginary sports teams whose personnel consists of actual players selected from a professional sports league and team performance is determined by the combined statistics of the players.

To imagine; visualize.

That which comes from one's imagination.

(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.

A fantastical design.

(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

To fantasize (about).

(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

(transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

Fantastic designs.

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

Imagination unrestricted by reality;

Fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it;

Something many people believe that is false;