fantasist

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

/ ˈfæn tə sɪst, -zɪst; fænˈteɪ ʒɪst /

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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

Words nearby fantasist

fantail darter, fantail goldfish, fan-tan, fantasia, fantasied, fantasist, fantasize, fantasm, fantasmagoria, fantast, fantastic

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What sort of fool or fantasist would ever suggest that “Republicans need a centrist candidate in 2012”?
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And assuredly, the Marquis de Sade is only a timid bourgeois, a mediocre fantasist, beside him!
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British Dictionary definitions for fantasist

fantasist

/ (ˈfæntəsɪst) /

noun

a person who indulges in fantasies

a person who writes musical or literary fantasies

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