phantasy
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Every age, Mackay writes, “has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019
With the help of this projective identification, one can replace undesirable qualities with the stuff of phantasy.
From Newsweek • Mar. 9, 2015
Below the waist, though, it was the worse; for here all human resemblance left off and sheer phantasy began.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2013
As it happens, behind his cherished respectability he himself has led a secret phantasy life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The poets have chanted this momentous revolution according to their religion, their phantasy, or their mood.
From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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