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Synonyms for flight of fancy
noun imaginative but unworkable ideaMore words related to flight of fancy
castle in the air
noun. wishful thinking
cock-and-bull story
noun. interesting but unbelievable story
exaggeration
noun. overstatement, embellishment
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- coloring
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
hyperbolism
noun. exaggeration
imagination
noun. power to create in one's mind
- acuteness
- artistry
- awareness
- chimera
- cognition
- conception
- creation
- creative thought
- creativity
- enterprise
- fabrication
- fancy
- fantasy
- flight of fancy
- idea
- ideality
- illusion
- image
- imagery
- ingenuity
- insight
- inspiration
- intelligence
- invention
- inventiveness
- mental agility
- notion
- originality
- perceptibility
- realization
- resourcefulness
- sally
- supposition
- thought
- thoughtfulness
- unreality
- verve
- vision
- visualization
- wit
- wittiness
imaginativeness
noun. imagination
- acuteness
- artistry
- awareness
- chimera
- cognition
- conception
- creation
- creative thought
- creativity
- enterprise
- fabrication
- fancy
- fantasy
- flight of fancy
- idea
- ideality
- illusion
- image
- imagery
- ingenuity
- insight
- inspiration
- intelligence
- invention
- inventiveness
- mental agility
- notion
- originality
- perceptibility
- realization
- resourcefulness
- sally
- supposition
- thought
- thoughtfulness
- unreality
- verve
- vision
- visualization
- wit
- wittiness
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