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Pronunciation: [fˈantɐsˌa͡ɪzɪŋ] (IPA)

Fantasizing refers to the act of indulging in elaborate imagination or daydreaming. Some synonyms for fantasizing include dreaming, imagining, envisioning, conjuring, visualizing, and picturing. These words connote the same surreal feeling that comes with creating exciting scenarios in one's mind. They may differ in their degree of specificity or emphasis but all convey the sense of creating an alternative reality. Other potential synonyms for fantasizing are crafting or hatching, which emphasize the creation aspect of this mental activity. No matter what word you use, fantasizing is a powerful tool that can inspire creative thinking, alleviate stress and promote positive emotions.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Fantasizing

Was she fantasizing or had he said he was going to do that and then offer the Beta procedure to its members?
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
She was fantasizing she could heal Nina all by herself.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
She spent the entire night this way, fantasizing and struggling within herself, for she did not know what to do.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba

Famous quotes with Fantasizing

  • I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
    Spalding Gray
  • People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
    Florence King
  • I never had a strategy in my dealing with other humans! I've always been very passive socially. I went along with their agenda. I had none of my own! Left to my own devices I stayed in my room or wandered aimlessly in the streets, fantasizing about bizarre things I yearned to do to big ladies, or filled with self-pity and resentment. I was helpless in the presence of other people! My main concern was to make them like me by being as agreeable as possible, and secondly to impress them with my brilliance, my sharp wit, my originality, and my fundamental saintliness. Over time, and after years—decades—of diligent practice, I became very good at this cute little performance of mine. But this performance was improvised in the moment, catered to suit whoever I happened to be with. There was no strategy. It was always an effort. Only in solitude was I completely relaxed. Funny thing...
    Robert Crumb
  • “It's been such a short visit, I haven't had time to make sense of why you have become so intense about the animal business.” She watches the wipers wagging back and forth. “A better explanation,” she says, “is that I have not told you why, or dare not tell you. When I think of the words, they seem so outrageous that they are best spoken into a pillow or into a hole in the ground, like King Midas.” “What is it you can't say?” “It's that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possible, I ask myself, that all of them are participants in a crime of stupefying proportions? Am I fantasizing it all? I must be mad! Yet every day I see the evidences. The very people I suspect produce the evidence, exhibit it, offer it to me. Corpses. Fragments of corpses that they have bought for money. It is as if I were to visit friends, and to make some polite remark about the lamp in their living room, and they were to say, ‘Yes, it's nice, isn't it? Polish-Jewish skin it's made of, we find that's best, the skins of young Polish-Jewish virgins.’ And then I go to the bathroom and the soap-wrapper says, ‘Treblinka— 100% human stearate.’ Am I dreaming, I say to myself?”
    J. M. Coetzee

Related words: fantasy, fantasize, daydreaming, imagination, daydream, imaginary, imagining

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