phantasy
noun
a less common variant of fantasy.
phantasies
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pluralof phantasy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The "background facts to her nightmare," Britton writes, invoking Freud, "opened a door to unconscious phantasies of a dreadful scene of childbirth."
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2018
I had so completely absorbed myself in these phantasies, that finally I believed that I myself had lived through this love.
From The Wish A Novel by Hermann Sudermann
These phantasies possess psychological reality in contrast to physical reality, and so we gradually come to understand that in the realm of neuroses the psychological reality is the determining factor.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
It is simply an example of the current religious phantasies of the age just before and after the Fall of Jerusalem.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
I struggle with these waking phantasies; my eyes are full of tears.
From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie
