How do you use the word "fantasy" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "fantasy" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fantasy": Mathematicians are poets, except that they have to prove what their fantasy creates. Fantasy is often the mother of art.

Fantasy Meaning

/ˈfæntəsi/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThat which comes from one's imagination.

nounThat which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.

Sentence Examples

Mathematicians are poets, except that they have to prove what their fantasy creates.

Fantasy is often the mother of art.

In his fantasy, he imagined he was a famous writer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

fancy illusion

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

His lifelong ____ of flying cars became reality with the new prototype.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Many people enjoy reading ____ novels because they can briefly escape into magical worlds.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor. Latin phantasia Old French fantasiebor. Middle English fantasie English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy. Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Is not this something more than fantasy?" — c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, London, act 1, scene 1:

"A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory." — 1634, John Milton, Comus:

"The whole position was so tremendous and so absolutely unearthly, that I believe it actually lulled our sense of terror, but to this hour I often see it in my dreams, and at its mere phantasy wake up covered with cold sweat." — 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

"Try as hard as it can, empirical science cannot come up with a naturalistic explanation; it can only slip into fantasies that make scientists feel good because they are in harmony with their opinions, prejudices, and unconscious assumptions about the nature of reality." — 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 92:

"Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread." — 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter:

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