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幻想 — meaning in English

huàn xiǎng

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English meaning

  • daydream noun A pleasant chain of thoughts or fantasies that drift through your mind while you're awake, disconnected from what's actually happening around you.
  • delusion noun A firmly held false belief, maintained even against clear evidence.
  • fancy verb British informal: to want or feel attracted to something or someone.
  • fantasize verb To imagine something pleasant or desired, especially something unlikely to happen.
  • fantasy noun An imagined scenario, especially a pleasant or unrealistic one.
  • figment noun Something invented or imagined that has no basis in reality.
  • hallucination noun A false perception of something that isn't really there, often caused by illness, drugs, or extreme stress.

Senses

幻想 is used for these senses in English:

  • daydream (intransitive) To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
  • delusion The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
  • fancy An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
  • fantasize (intransitive) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
  • fantasy That which comes from one's imagination.
  • figment A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
  • hallucination A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.

daydream — full definition

  1. noun A pleasant chain of thoughts or fantasies that drift through your mind while you're awake, disconnected from what's actually happening around you.
  2. verb To let your mind wander into pleasant fantasies instead of paying attention to what's in front of you.

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