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PHANTASY WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phantasy world mean? 

PHANTASY WORLD (noun)
  The noun PHANTASY WORLD has 1 sense:

1. something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)play

  Familiarity information: PHANTASY WORLD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHANTASY WORLD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fairyland; fantasy world; phantasy world

Hypernyms ("phantasy world" is a kind of...):

fantasy; phantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phantasy world"):

paracosm (a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history)


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