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
- 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.
- verb To let your mind wander into pleasant fantasies instead of paying attention to what's in front of you.