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fantasist

noun

Etymology

From fantas(y) + -ist.

  1. derived from fantasier
  2. inherited from fantasien
  3. derived from *bʰh₂nyéti✻
  4. derived from φαντασία
  5. derived from phantasia
  6. derived from fantasie
  7. inherited from fantasie
  8. suffixed as fantasist — “fantasy + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who creates fantasies.

    • 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.

  2. One living in a fantasy world.

    • I resurrect this piece as antidote, I hope, to the gripping lies of a cinematic fantasist who suffers delusions of reality.

  3. A writer who writes in the fantasy style.

    • "Like the other fantasists dealt with in this volume, Rossetti used fantasy to subvert and undermine traditionalist notions, in this instance notions of male power and female submissiveness."

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for fantasist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA