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Something many people believe that is false
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phantasy
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For the cartoons produced by Columbia Pictures from 1939–1946, see Phantasies . Phantasy is a British independent record label established in London , England, and founded in 2007 by the DJ and producer , Erol Alkan . In 2011, Phantasy entered partnership ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Daemons are forbidden effluvia of the human phantasy , turned sick and evil. ▪ In any particular organization individuals bring in these anxieties from their inner, phantasy worlds. ▪ Of course these constructions are never just ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phantasy \Phan"ta*sy\, n. See Fantasy , and Fancy .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (dated form of fantasy English) 2 (context psychology English) The innate mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion , fantasy , fancy ] fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies" [syn: fantasy ] imagination ...
Usage examples of phantasy.
He must needs weave his phantasy into some quietly melancholy fabric of didactic or allegorical cast, in which his meekly resigned cynicism may display with naive moral appraisal the perfidy of a human race which he cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into its hypocrisy.
See, while I paint, all else escapes my sense, Save this bright throng of phantasies that press Upon my brain, each claiming from my hand Its immortality.
I please To yield to gentler influence, to own The strength of beauty and the power of joy, And welcome gracious phantasies that throng And hover over me in airy shapes.
She, too, had many things to revolve, not worldly calculations, but the troubled phantasies of a virgin mind which is experiencing its first shock against the barriers of fate.
Toward Elsje as she tranquilly sat by my side sewing at tiny garments and absorbed in the sweet prospect of her child, toward Elsje I could feign hopefulness and enter into her sweet phantasies but myself I could not deceive.
Nightmare Theater had been an early attempt to shock schizophrenics back into the objective world by rendering the phantasy world into which they were withdrawing uninhabitable.
PROLOGUE Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veiled Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies.
Yet are their minds pranked with many silly phantasies of honour and courtesy which may preserve us the poor dregs yet unspilt from the cup of our fortune, if we but leave unseasonable pride and see where our advantage lieth.
Something deeper: they'd said of him, those who'd been his friends, that if he'd ever gone right over the edge he would have been a schizoid, that the strain of his critically balanced double life would have led him sliding into a world of phantasy.
Nightmare Theatre had been an early attempt to shock schizophrenics back into the objective world by rendering the phantasy world into which they were withdrawing uninhabitable.
If hysterics refer their symptoms to imaginary traumas, then this new fact signifies that they create such scenes in their phantasies, and hence psychic reality deserves to be given a place next to actual reality.