fantasist

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Etymology

From fantasy +‎ -ist.

Noun

fantasist (plural fantasists)

  1. One who creates fantasies.
    • 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
      A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.
  2. One living in a fantasy world.
    • 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:
      I resurrect this piece as antidote, I hope, to the gripping lies of a cinematic fantasist who suffers delusions of reality.
  3. A writer who writes in the fantasy style.
    • 1991, Kath Filmer, Kath Filmer-Davies, The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age:
      "Like the other fantasists dealt with in this volume, Rossetti used fantasy to subvert and undermine traditionalist notions, in this instance notions of male power and female submissiveness."

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  • "The words beside the boxes read: 'Hooker, Liar, Porn Star, Fantasist, Trouble Maker, Shoplifter'."