Word

fancy, n.
(fancies)
freq. cnt. 2

imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
<noun.cognition> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

fancy

sample sentences

"never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

imagination, vision, imaginativeness

something many people believe that is false
<noun.cognition> freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

fancy fantasy illusion phantasy

sample sentences

"they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

illusional illusory

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

fantasy fantasize

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym

bubble will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus wishful thinking

a predisposition to like something
<noun.feeling> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

fancy fondness partiality

sample sentences

"he had a fondness for whiskey"
"she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym