· something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

Synonym(s): illusion, fantasy, phantasy

Hypernym(s): misconception

· imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination; "never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence"

Hypernym(s): imagination, imaginativeness, vision

· a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"; "she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less"

Synonym(s): fondness, partiality

Hypernym(s): liking

· imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"

Synonym(s): visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image

Hypernym(s): imagine, conceive_of, ideate, envisage

· have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"

Synonym(s): go_for, take_to

Hypernym(s): desire, want

· not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

Antonym(s): plain