Phantasy
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Archaic spelling of fantasy. alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable
"What generous self-sacrifice—what a world of gentle affection, were now called forth in Emily by a moment's phantasy, whose life depended on that frailest of frail things, a coquette's vanity!"
- 2 imagination unrestricted by reality wordnet
- 3 The innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality. countable, uncountable
"By later Kleinians and critics alike, phantasy is often seen as identical to Freud's concept of psychic reality."
- 4 something many people believe that is false wordnet
- 5 fiction with a large amount of imagination in it wordnet
- 1 Archaic spelling of fantasy. alt-of, archaic
Example
More examples"As propositions may be true or false, so also opinion or judgment or conception, may be true or false: for opinion or judgment is only the concluding result of deliberation or reflection — and reflection is the silent dialogue of the mind with itself: while conception or phantasy is the coalescence or conjunction of opinion with present perception."
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