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Main Entry: fancy
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural fancies
Etymology: Middle English fantasie, fantsy imagination, image, illusion, preference, from Anglo-French
fantasie illusion, from Latin phantasia, from Greek, appearance, imagination, from phantazein to
present to the mind (middle voice, to imagine), from phainein to show; akin to Old English gebōned
polished, Greek phōs light
Date: 15th century
1 a: a
liking formed by caprice rather than reason : <took a fancy to the mutt>
b: amorous fondness
2 a: notion, whim b: an image or representation of something
formed in the mind
3 archaic : fantastic quality or
state
4 a: imagination
especially of a capricious or delusive sort b: the
power of conception and representation used in artistic expression (as by a poet)
5a: devotees of some particular art, practice, or amusement b: the object of interest of such a fancy
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