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fantasticity en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós)bor. Late Latin phantasticusbor. Middle French fantastiquebor. English fantastic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English fantasticity From fantastic + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The state of being fantastic.
    • Imagine the fantasticity of a 120 square-yard plot in the F.B. Area selling at Rs. 60,000 to Rs. 70,000! 1978, Pakistan Economist, volume 18, page 34:
    • Again to give you some idea of the fantasticity of crassitude and of violence, Balitsky, head of the G.P.U. in the Ukraine, estimated eight to nine million died in the Ukraine alone in the nineteen-thirties, not to mention those who died of starvation in the Urals, Trans-Volga and Eastern Siberia. 1976 November 7, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, “Conversations With Mikhail Borodin (Part II)”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 44, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D:
    • Perhaps the ancient authors all exaggerated the fantasticity or the universality of the rite, omitting to mention that a large proportion failed each year to see the "great light," or become "possessed" by the gods, or know the "rivalry between seeing and hearing." 1993, DAvid Fideler, Alexandria 2, volume 2, page 86:
    • The worship of phalluses which is another frequently-met feature of early religions leaves the superficial modern observer equally aghast on account of its fantasticity when he is not overwhelmed by its indecency. 1937, Nagendra Nath Ghosh, The Aryan Trail in Iran and India, page 257:

Synonyms

fantasticalness

Translations (1)

fi fantastisuus (state)