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
Lisette is smiling; she is not asleep, but she has closed her eyes, the better to enjoy her little world of phantasies and dreams.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
"Come, my royal brother," interrupted Christopher, hastily approaching the couch, "speak no more with that sick dreamer, he is in a fair way to infect you with his feverish phantasies."
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
They scatter into fragmentary clans, And in the earnest of their added woe, Give birth to new religious phantasies.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
Visions, like the phantasies of delirium, are no ordinary symptom of madness: delirium falsifies perception, madness the thoughts.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
