variant spelling of fantasy (restricted to archaic uses or, in modern use, to the fields of psychology and psychiatry)
Example sentencesExamples
In Phèdre voice becomes the place where nocturnal phantasies commingling sexuality, death, and violence are embodied in verbal images.
A like evil corrupts the intentions of protest against the war where the protester is aroused by phantasies of acts he has never committed or seen.
The mother's sorrow, I suggest, is partly a denial of her own destructive phantasies towards her child, a repudiation dictated by the superego which, however, does not lead to repression.
Memory of his last days before the war gets slowly mixed with delusions and phantasy.
The nightmare is the infantile terror of being totally unconnected with the parent, and at the mercy of the external world and one's internal phantasies.
Rhymes
fantasy
Definition of phantasy in US English:
phantasy
nounˈfan(t)əsēˈfæn(t)əsi
variant spelling of fantasy (restricted to archaic uses or, in modern use, to the fields of psychology and psychiatry)
Example sentencesExamples
The nightmare is the infantile terror of being totally unconnected with the parent, and at the mercy of the external world and one's internal phantasies.
The mother's sorrow, I suggest, is partly a denial of her own destructive phantasies towards her child, a repudiation dictated by the superego which, however, does not lead to repression.
A like evil corrupts the intentions of protest against the war where the protester is aroused by phantasies of acts he has never committed or seen.
Memory of his last days before the war gets slowly mixed with delusions and phantasy.
In Phèdre voice becomes the place where nocturnal phantasies commingling sexuality, death, and violence are embodied in verbal images.