fancy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of FANCY

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality <a writer with a prodigious talent for creating fancies that captivate readers young and old>

Synonyms chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

Near Antonyms actuality, fact, reality

a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action <is this a serious interest in music, or just your latest fancy that will be forgotten after a week?>

Synonyms bee, caprice, crank, fancy, freak, humor, kink, maggot, megrim, notion, vagary, vagrancy, whimsy (also whimsey)

Related Words capriciousness, fancifulness, fantasy (also phantasy), freakishness, impetuosity, whimsicality; conceit; concept, conception, image, impression, mind's eye, picture, thought; brainstorm, inspiration

positive regard for something <now that he's rich he's taken a fancy to expensive sports cars>

Synonyms appetite, fancy, favor, fondness, like, love, love affair, partiality, preference, relish, shine, taste, use

Near Antonyms apathy, disinclination; indifference, unconcern

Antonyms aversion, disfavor, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, loathing, mislike

the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others <to fans of Lewis Carroll, the animal creations of his fertile fancy are as real as any creature to be found at the zoo>

Synonyms contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality