THESAURUS
fantasy
Marchen, Walter Mitty, Western, Western story, Westerner, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, adventure story, alienation, allegory, apologue, apparition, appearance, ardor, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, be absent, bedtime story, bemusement, bizarrerie, blame-shifting, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, brown study, bubble, capriccio, caprice, castle-building, chimera, compensation, conceit, conceiving, concoction, concupiscence, crank, craze, crazy idea, creativity, crotchet, curiosity, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, decompensation, defense mechanism, delirium, delusion, depth of thought, dereism, dereistic thinking, desideration, desire, detective story, displacement, dissociation, divagate, dream, dream of, dreaming, drive, eagerness, eidolon, emotional insulation, enchantment, engrossment, envisioning, escape, escape into
fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fable, fabliau, fad, fairy tale, fancy, fantasizing, fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasticism, fantasying, ferlie, fiction, figment, figure, fit of abstraction, flight, flight of fancy, flimflam, folk story, folktale, fool notion, form, freak, freak out, freakish inspiration, fumes of fancy, gest, ghost story, go woolgathering, grotesquerie, hallucination, harebrained idea, hope, horme, horse opera, humor, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, image, imagery, imagination, imaginativeness, imagining, insubstantial image, intellectual curiosity, invention, inventiveness, isolation, kink, legend, libido, love story, lust for learning, maggot, make-believe, masquerade, megrim, mind, miracle, mirage, moon, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, need, negativism, nightmare, notion, nursery tale, originality, overcompensation, parable, passing fancy, passion, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, pipe, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming, pleasure, pleasure principle, preoccupation, presence, prodigy, projection, psychotaxis, quirk, rainbow, rationalization, resistance, reverie, romance, science fiction, sexual desire, shade, shadow, shape, shocker, sick fancy, sign, sociological adjustive reactions, space fiction, space opera, specter, stargaze, stargazing, stray, study, sublimation, substitution, suspense story, thick-coming fancies, thirst for knowledge, thriller, toy, trance, trip, urge, vagary, vapor, vision, waking dream, wander, want, wanting, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whodunit, wildest dream, wildest dreams, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment
fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, wonder, wonderwork, woolgathering, work of fiction, wraith
ROGET THESAURUS
fantasy
Desire
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desire, wish, fancy,
fantasy, want, need, exigency, mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection, propensity, willingness, liking, love, fondness, relish, longing, hankering, inkling, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, coveting, aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition, eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety, impetuosity, appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency, sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist, thirst, thirstiness, drouth, mouthwatering, itch, itching, prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence, edge of appetite, edge of hunger, torment of Tantalus, sweet tooth, lickerish tooth, itching palm, longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye, greed, voracity, passion, rage, furore, mania, manie, inextinguishable desire, dipsomania, kleptomania, lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant, cormorant, desideratum, want, a consummation devoutly to be wished, attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol, whim, whimsy, whimsey, maggot, hobby, hobby-horse, Fortunatus's cap, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, desirous, desiring, inclined, partial to, fain, wishful, optative, anxious, wistful, curious, at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous, craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy, hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear, greedy, unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked, unsaturated, eager, avid, keen, burning, fervent, ardent, agog, all agog, breathless, impatient, bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon, mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire, aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching, desirable, desired, in demand, pleasing, appetizing, appetible, tantalizing, wistfully, fain, Int, would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual, the wish being father to the thought, sua cuique voluptas, hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching, aut Caesar aut nullus, Cassius has a lean and hungry look, hungry as the grave, I was born to other things, not what we wish but what we want, such joy ambition finds, the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none, ubi mel ibi apes.
Imagination
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imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, mind's eye, such stuff as dreams are made of, ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, a fine frenzy, cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, thick coming fancies, creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy,
fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne, Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon, work of fiction, Arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of Alnashar, illusion, phantom, Fata Morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector, imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, fancy light from fancy caught, imagination rules the world, l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, Wahrheil und Dichtung, DIVISION II COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS.