fantasist

English

Alternative forms

phantasist (dated)

Etymology

fantasy +‎ -ist

Noun

fantasist (plural fantasists)

One who creates fantasies.
- 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
  A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.
One living in a fantasy world.
A writer who writes in the fantasy style.
- 1991, Kath Filmer, ‎Kath Filmer-Davies, The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age
  "Like the other fantasists dealt with in this volume, Rossetti used fantasy to subvert and undermine traditionalist notions, in this instance notions of male power and female submissiveness."

Translations

one who creates fantasies

one living in a fantasy world

Russian: фантазёр (ru) m (fantazjór), фантазёрка (ru) f (fantazjórka)

a fantasy writer

Russian: фанта́ст (ru) m (fantást), фанта́стка (ru) f (fantástka)

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Finnish: fantasiataiteilija (artist), mielikuvitusmaailmassa elävä (one living in fantasy world)

German: Fantast (de) m, Fantastin f

References

"The words beside the boxes read: 'Hooker, Liar, Porn Star, Fantasist, Trouble Maker, Shoplifter'."

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