phantasy
Americannoun
plural
phantasiesnoun
Example Sentences
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Every age, Mackay writes, “has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019
With the help of this projective identification, one can replace undesirable qualities with the stuff of phantasy.
From Newsweek • Mar. 9, 2015
Below the waist, though, it was the worse; for here all human resemblance left off and sheer phantasy began.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2013
Sulphurous story, weakened by phantasy and chemical jargon, about a young English chemist in the hands of slick promoters for whom he develops a process which makes sugar out of air.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is even possible that the person who made such a slip will deny this phantasy with the best subjective justification and will reject it as something entirely alien to him.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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