fantasy

• n. 空想; 白昼夢; 幻覚
• adj. 非現実的
• 空想；想象
• vi.空想にふける；ファンタジアを演じる（空想に等しい）

PIE*bhaの「輝く」「照らす」が語源で、beacon、fantasmと同じ。 daydream、fantasyに由来する。

fantasy

fantasy: see fancy

fantasy (n.)

early 14c., "illusory appearance," from Old French fantaisie, phantasie "vision, imagination" (14c.), from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasia "power of imagination; appearance, image, perception," from phantazesthai "picture to oneself," from phantos "visible," from phainesthai "appear," in late Greek "to imagine, have visions," related to phaos, phos "light," phainein "to show, to bring to light" (see phantasm). Sense of "whimsical notion, illusion" is pre-1400, followed by that of "fantastic imagination," which is first attested 1530s. Sense of "day-dream based on desires" is from 1926. In early use in English also fantasie, phantasy, etc. As the name of a fiction genre, from 1949.

1. The film starts off realistically and then develops into a ridiculous fantasy .

映画は写実的に始まり、それから荒唐無稽な幻想に発展した。

2.She clings to a romantic fantasy of wedded bliss.

彼女は結婚後の幸せのロマンチックな幻想に酔いしれている。

3.She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.

彼女は様々な奇妙な生活を夢見て、思い入れから楽しみを得ている。

4.Falling in love the first time is all froth and fantasy .

初恋はまったく幻の夢だった。

5.Children use fantasy to explore worrying aspects of real life.

子供たちは実際の生活で不安になる様々なことをファンタジーで探求している。