Fancy and Fantasy

fancy

Something many people believe that is false.
- usage: "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
- synonyms: illusion, fantasy, phantasy
A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination.
A predisposition to like something.
- usage: "he had a fondness for whiskey"
- synonyms: fondness, partiality

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
- usage: "I can't see him on horseback"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
- synonyms: visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image
Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for.
- usage: "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"
- synonyms: go for, take to

Not plain; decorative or ornamented.
- usage: "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

(n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
(v.t.) To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
(n.) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
(v.t.) To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
(n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit or embellishment; imagination.
(n.) An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
(a.) Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
(n.) Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
(v.t.) To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
(n.) That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
(v.i.) To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
(v.i.) To love.
(a.) Extravagant; above real value.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Fancy is a feminine given name

fantasy

(n.) Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
(n.) Fantastic designs.
(v.t.) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Imagination unrestricted by reality.
- usage: "a schoolgirl fantasy"
- synonyms: phantasy
Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it.
- usage: "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
- synonyms: phantasy
Something many people believe that is false.
- usage: "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
- synonyms: illusion, phantasy, fancy

Indulge in fantasies.
- usage: "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company"
- synonyms: fantasize, fantasise