Fantasy vs. Imagine — What's the Difference?

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama.

To form a mental picture or image of

The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things

To think or suppose; conjecture

A fantasia.

To have a notion of or about without adequate foundation; fancy or believe

Imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about

To employ the imagination.

The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy.

To have a belief or make a guess.

Something, such as an invention, that is a creation of the fancy.

(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.

(transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind.

A genre of fiction or other artistic work characterized by fanciful or supernatural elements.

(transitive) to assume

A work of this genre.

(transitive) to conjecture or guess

An imagined event or sequence of mental images, such as a daydream, usually fulfilling a wish or psychological need.

(transitive) to use one's imagination

An unrealistic or improbable supposition.

To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.

(Music) See fantasia.

Used to mock some idea.

A coin issued especially by a questionable authority and not intended for use as currency.

(fandom slang) A short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.

(Obsolete) A hallucination.

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

Relating to or being a game in which participants act as owners of imaginary sports teams whose personnel consists of actual players selected from a professional sports league and team performance is determined by the combined statistics of the players.

To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.

To imagine; visualize.

To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

That which comes from one's imagination.

To think; to suppose.

(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.

Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case;

A fantastical design.

Expect, believe, or suppose;

(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

To fantasize (about).

(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

(transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

Fantastic designs.

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

Imagination unrestricted by reality;

Fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it;

Something many people believe that is false;