2022-03-16
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – F – fancy & fantasy
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียงfancy = “FAN-see”
ออกเสียง fantasy = “FAN-tuh-see” or “-zee”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
fancy & fantasy
Fancy is a term for imagination
that is light, playful, unreal, and whimsical:
“I often indulge in the happy fancy that I am both rich and powerful.”
‘Sue’s belief that she is resistible is merely her playful fancy.”
“She let her fancy play with the idea of a luxurious trip to Paris.”
Fantasy is applied to that kind of fancy
that is unrestrained, extravagant, and erratic:
”It is a dangerous fantasy to believe that you can fly
through the air by flapping your arms.”
“The fantasy of this artist resulted in paintings that are weird and unbelievable.”
Dictionary.com:
SYNONYM STUDY FOR FANCY
Fancy, Fantasy, Imagination
refer to qualities in literature or other artistic composition.
The creations of fancy are casual, whimsical,
and often amusing, being at once less profound
and less moving or inspiring than those of imagination:
letting one's fancy play freely on a subject; an impish fancy.
Fantasy now usually suggests
an unrestrained or extravagant fancy, often resulting in caprice:
The use of fantasy in art creates interesting results.
The term and concept of creative imagination
are less than two hundred years old;
previously only the reproductive aspect
had been recognized, hardly to be distinguished from memory.
“Creative imagination” suggests that
the memories of actual sights and experiences
may so blend in the mind of the writer or artist
as to produce something that has never existed before
—often a hitherto unperceived vision of reality:
to use imagination in portraying character and action.
Dictionary.com:
HISTORICAL USAGE OF FANCY
Fancy is a 15th-century contraction of fantasy or phantasy.
Fantasy comes from Old French phantasie, fantasie
“imagination, imaginative faculty, a work of the imagination,”
which in turn comes from Late Latin phantasia
“idea, notion, fancy, imagined experience
or set of circumstances, mere fancy or semblance.”
In the Vulgate
(the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome
at the end of the 4th century),
phantasia also means “apparition, phantom.”
The original meaning of fancy,
“individual preference or liking, arbitrary inclination,”
as in “to take a fancy to someone,”
was only one of several meanings of Middle English fantasie,
a technical word in the psychology of scholasticism
(the system of theological and philosophical teaching
and disputation predominant in the Middle Ages,
based chiefly upon the authority of the Bible, of the church fathers,
and of Aristotle and his pagan, Christian, Muslim,
and Jewish commentators).
The adjective fancy, meaning “fine, ornamental,”
did not appear until 1753;
it developed from attributive use of the noun in the sense
“designed to please the taste or fancy.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
History and Etymology for fancy
Verb
Middle English fantasien, fantesien, fancyen
"to plan, devise, create, form (an idea), imagine (something false), desire,"
in part derivative of fantasie, fantsy, fansey FANCY entry 2,
in part borrowed from Middle French fantasier "to imagine, invent,"
verbal derivative of fantasie FANTASY entry 1
Noun
Middle English fantasie, fantsy, fansey
"the imagination as a faculty, mental image produced by this faculty, deluded notion, figment of the imagination,
preference directed by caprice rather than reason, liking"
— more at FANTASY entry 1
NOTE: The disyllabic form, a rare variant of fantasie FANTASY entry 1
in Middle English, became more common
and began to separate in sense from fantasie/fantasy
in early Modern English.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
History and Etymology for fantasy
Noun
Middle English fantasie, fantsy, fansey
"the imagination as a faculty, mental image produced
by this faculty, deluded notion, figment of the imagination,
preference directed by caprice rather than reason, liking,"
borrowed from Anglo-French fantasie
"imagination as a faculty, figment of the imagination, dizziness,"
borrowed from Late Latin phantasia
"imagination as a faculty, mental image of something
perceived physically, image evoked by a poet or orator,
a thing imagined by someone sleeping or ill, delusion,"
going back to Latin, "imagined situation or experience,"
borrowed from Greek phantasía
"appearance, presentation to consciousness
(whether immediate or in memory),
image, imagination as a faculty, imagery,"
noun derivative corresponding to phantázein
"to make visible, present to the eye or mind,
(middle voice) place before one's mind, picture to oneself, imagine,"
causative verb from phantós "visible,"
verbal adjective of phaínō, phaínein (active voice)
"to bring to light, cause to appear,"
and phaínomai, phaínesthai (middle voice)
"to become visible, come to light, appear,"
going back to *phan-i̯e/o-,
thematized from Indo-European *bh-né-h2-/bh-n̥-h2-
(whence also Armenian banam "(I) open, reveal"),
nasal present from *bheh2- "shine, give light, appear,"
whence Sanskrit bhā́ti "(it) shines, beams," Avestan fra-uuāiti "
(it) beams forth"; the verb is allied to nominal derivatives in -n-,
as Germanic *bōnjan-
(whence Old English bōn "ornament," gebōned "ornamented,"
Middle Dutch boenen " to scrub, polish"),
Old Irish bán "white, fair, bright,"
Tocharian B peñiyo "splendor," Sanskrit bhānú-
"light, beam, brilliance, appearance," Avestan bānu- "beam of light"
NOTE: Compare FANCY entry 2,
in Middle English a rare variant of fantasie;
the two split from each other in early Modern English,
so that FANCY entry 2 and fantasy
now differ in meaning and construction.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
a not infrequent sense, usually with the spelling phantasy, was
"the formation of images or representations in direct perception
or in memory,"
more or less following the Greek meaning.
— Regarding the relation of *bheh2- "shine, give light, appear"
to the homonymous base *bheh2- "speak, say," see the note at BAN entry 1.
Adjective
from attributive use of FANTASY entry 1
Verb
Middle English fantasien, fantesien, fancyen
"to plan, devise, create, form (an idea), imagine (something false), desire"
— more at FANCY entry 1
NOTE: The word was originally a variant of FANCY entry 1,
which, together with the more recent derivative FANTASIZE,
has in large part supplanted it.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for fancy
Verb
Think, Conceive, Imagine, Fancy, Realize, Envisage, Envision
mean to form an idea of.
Think implies the entrance of an idea into one's mind
with or without deliberate consideration or reflection.
I just thought of a good joke
Conceive suggests the forming and bringing forth
and usually developing of an idea, plan, or design.
conceived of a new marketing approach
Imagine stresses a visualization.
imagine you're at the beach
Fancy suggests an imagining often unrestrained
by reality but spurred by desires.
fancied himself a super athlete
Realize stresses a grasping of the significance of
what is conceived or imagined.
realized the enormity of the task ahead
Envisage and Envision imply a conceiving or imagining
that is especially clear or detailed.
envisaged a totally computerized operation
envisioned a cure for the disease
