Translation
imagination; fantasy
Word origin
From Greek phantasia ('appearance, the power of forming images'), from phantazein ('to make visible'), from phainein ('to show'). It reached Esperanto through Latin and the modern European languages, and gives English fantasy and phantom.
- Origin
- Greek, via Latin and French
- Root
- phantasia
- English cognates
- fantasy, fantastic, phantom
Examples
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The child has a rich imagination.
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In his imagination he was the king of a great country.
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That idea came from her imagination, not from real life.
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