fantasist

[fan-tuh-sist, -zist; fan-tey-zhist]

noun

a person who writes or composes fantasies or fantasias in music, poetry, or the like.

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Origin of fantasist

First recorded in 1920–25; fantas(y) + -ist

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Examples from the Web for fantasist

Contemporary Examples

The prime minister is a hybrid: regional hawk, Zionist statist, techno-globalist, neo-conservative, and Greater Israel fantasist.
Understanding John Kerry's Logic
Bernard Avishai
July 22, 2013
Pessimist: I thought you said you were an optimist - not a fantasist.
Post-Convention Hangover: America Isn't Working
David Frum
September 7, 2012
What sort of fool or fantasist would ever suggest that “Republicans need a centrist candidate in 2012”?
A GOP Presidential Candidate Must Seize the Center to Win
Michael Medved
December 7, 2011

Historical Examples

He had learned early that he was not, and never would be, the fantasist that some of his earlier canvases indicate.
Adventures in the Arts
Marsden Hartley

British Dictionary definitions for fantasist

fantasist

noun

a person who indulges in fantasies
a person who writes musical or literary fantasies

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