An imagined situation, story, or world that is not real, often involving magic or impossible events; or the act of imagining such things.
From Old French “fantasie,” from Latin “phantasia,” from Greek “phantasia” meaning “appearance, imagination,” from “phainein” meaning “to show.” It originally referred to the power of imagination itself.
Fantasy started as a word about what your mind “shows” you, like mental pictures on a screen. The genre name reminds us that these stories are not lies—they’re deliberate acts of imagination.
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