fantasist
English
Alternative forms
- phantasist (dated)
Etymology
fantasy + -ist
Noun
fantasist (plural fantasists)
- One who creates fantasies.
- 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
- A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.
- 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
- One living in a fantasy world.
- A writer who writes in the fantasy style.
- 1991, Kath Filmer, Kath Filmer-Davies, The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age
- "Like the other fantasists dealt with in this volume, Rossetti used fantasy to subvert and undermine traditionalist notions, in this instance notions of male power and female submissiveness."
- 1991, Kath Filmer, Kath Filmer-Davies, The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age
Translations
one who creates fantasies
one living in a fantasy world
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a fantasy writer
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References
- "The words beside the boxes read: 'Hooker, Liar, Porn Star, Fantasist, Trouble Maker, Shoplifter'."