fantastique

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English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.

Pronunciation

Noun

fantastique (uncountable)

  1. (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
    • 1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɑ̃.tas.tik/
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  • Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

fantastique (plural fantastiques)

  1. fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies)
  2. (film, literature) related to the fantastique genre.

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

fantastique m (plural fantastiques)

  1. (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.

Descendants

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