fantasy — OAT

fantasy

noun

1 the movie is ambitious in its mix of fantasy and realism:

imagination, creativity, fancy, invention, originality, vision, speculation, make-believe, daydreaming, reverie.

▷antonyms truth, realism.

2 his fantasy about appearing on television:

dream, daydream, pipe dream, flight of fancy, fanciful notion, wish, wishful thinking;

fond hope, chimera, delusion, illusion, figment of the imagination, castle in the air, castle in Spain;

informal pie in the sky, cloud cuckoo land.

3 fantasy was considered a subset of science fiction for a long time:

myth, legend, fable, fairy tale, romance;

science fiction, sci-fi, horror;

sword and sorcery;

escapism.

▷antonyms realism.