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  • present participle of fancy.

fancying

NOUN
conception
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appreciation conceit concept impression interpretation notion perception realization
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apperception apprehension clue cognition comprehension consideration design dreaming explanation exposition fancy image inkling intellection meditation musing philosophizing picture plan representation speculation thought version
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cogitating communing concentrating considering deliberating envisaging imagining meditating mental grasp speculating
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concrete fact ignorance misunderstanding reality truth
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abortion being death
NOUN
daydream
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pipe dream reverie
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conceiving dream fancy imagination imagining musing phantasm phantasy stargazing trip vision wish woolgathering
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castle in the air figment of imagination fond hope fool's paradise head trip in a zone mind trip pie in the sky
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actuality certainty dislike existence fact hate reality substance truth
NOUN
fantasy
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delusion fancy illusion nightmare reverie vision
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Atlantis apparition appearance bubble chimera conceiving creativity daydream envisioning externalizing fabrication fairyland fantasia figment flight hallucination imaginativeness imagining invention mirage objectifying originality rainbow trip utopia vagary
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air castle flight of imagination fool's paradise head trip mind trip
Antonyms
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actuality certainty fact reality truth
NOUN
making
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formulation
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authoring building causation composition conception constituting construction contriving designing devising fabrication fashioning forging occasioning origination performing planning producing production shaping
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destruction ruin

Example Sentences

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Fancying himself a cineaste, Kim was more obsessed with Shin, his idol.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2016

Fancying France today, 33-12 with Chabal hammering home a duo..

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2011

Fancying himself a tragic poet, he works now & then on the first scene of a drama of which he is to be the hero.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fancying herself a bit of an expert, she offered to buy it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fancying that the other man had noticed his surreptitious glance, he hastened once more into speech.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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