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
"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
These new social systems were foredoomed as Utopian; the more completely they were worked out in detail, the more they could not avoid drifting off into pure phantasies.
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
It is to be feared that some of our ingenious theorists have too frequently tortured organism on a Procrustean couch, to suit their favourite phantasies.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Whence comes the need for these phantasies, and the material for them?
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
