fantastique

Definitions of fantastique
  1. noun
    imagination unrestricted by reality
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    types:
    projet illusoire, rêve
    a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
    type of:
    imagination
    the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
  2. noun
    fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
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    types:
    science-fiction
    literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
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    fiction
    a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
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