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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fan-tas-tik
Phonetic Transcription : fænˈtæs tɪk



Definition of fantasticality

Origin :
  • late 14c., "existing only in imagination," from Middle French fantastique (14c.), from Medieval Latin fantasticus, from Late Latin phantasticus "imaginary," from Greek phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"); see phantasm. Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" recorded by 1938.
  • As in strangeness : noun unfamiliarity
Example sentences :
  • No affectation, fantasticality or distortion dwelt in him; no shadow of cant.
  • Extract from : « An American Hobo in Europe » by Ben Goodkind
  • Frédéric's great force was his extravagance, his fantasticality; and the stage of the Rue de Richelieu was a trifle too academic.
  • Extract from : « The Galaxy, April, 1877 » by Various
  • No affectation, fantasticality, or distortion, dwelt in him; no shadow of cant.
  • Extract from : « The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III » by Various
  • "Yes," replied the dead voice of the woman without an inflection to suggest that she felt the fantasticality of her statement.
  • Extract from : « The Club of Queer Trades » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Occasionally in the midst of this display of fantasticality there is a work of promise or even of positive interest.
  • Extract from : « French Art » by W. C. Brownell

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