fantasyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæntəsi/, /ˈfæntəzi/

名詞

fantasy (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fantasies)

1. That which comes from one's imagination.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, London, Act 1, Scene 1:

     Is not this something more than fantasy?

   • 1634, John Milton, Comus:

     A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
3. A fantastical design.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter:

     Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.

4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

派生語

関連する語

• fantasize

派生した語

• → Czech: fantasy
• → French: fantasy
• → German: Fantasy
• → Malay: fantasi
• → Polish: fantasy
• → Swahili: fantasia

動詞

fantasy (三人称単数 現在形 fantasies, 現在分詞 fantasying, 過去形および過去分詞形 fantasied)

1. (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
   • 2013, Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV:

     Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.

2. (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Cavendish to this entry?)

   • 1518, Thomas More; Robynson, transl., Utopia, published 1551:

     Which he doth most fantasy.

3. (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

参考

• cloud-cuckoo-land