fancies
Has affection for
Fancies is the plural of fancy—whims, caprices, or things that attract someone's interest: Her fancies change with the season.
In British English, fancies can mean small decorated cakes or pastries.
As a verb form, fancies means to like or be attracted to: She fancies him, or to imagine: He fancies himself a poet.
Senses flavor or preferences
- likesFeels favorably toward
- inclinationsInherent preferences or tendencies
- predilectionsEstablished personal preferences
- partialitiesUnfair favoring tendencies
affinities · leanings · penchants · favorites · choices · desires · interests · predispositions
Imagined scenarios, often pleasurable
- daydreamsIdle waking thoughts
- visionsImagined or prophetic sights
- illusionsDeceptive sensory experiences
- reveriesIdle waking fantasies
dreamscapes · inventions · hallucinations · phantasms · visualizations · castles in the air · pipe dreams · make-believe
Sudden inclinations to act
- vagariesUnpredictable changes or variations
- quirksUnusual individual traits
- capricesSudden impulsive urges
- flightsScheduled air travel segments
notions · fads · crotchets · eccentricities · fickleness · volatility · unpredictability · spontaneity
Short-lived intense attraction
- crushCompress with force
- desireIntense wanting
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
adoration · passion · allure · charm · appeal · magnetism · fascination · enchantment
Wasteful or lavish expenditures
- indulgencesExcessive self-granted pleasures
- treatsSnacks given as rewards
- splurgesSpends lavishly on treats
- luxuriesNon-essential costly pleasures
opulence · elegance · finery · frou-frou · frills · trimmings · embellishments · ostentation
tastes
Senses flavor or preferences
- likesFeels favorably toward
- inclinationsInherent preferences or tendencies
- predilectionsEstablished personal preferences
partialities · affinities · leanings · penchants · favorites · choices · desires · interests · predispositions · fondnesses
fantasies
Imagined scenarios, often pleasurable
- daydreamsIdle waking thoughts
- visionsImagined or prophetic sights
- illusionsDeceptive sensory experiences
reveries · dreamscapes · inventions · hallucinations · phantasms · visualizations · castles in the air · pipe dreams · make-believe · figments
impulses
Sudden inclinations to act
- vagariesUnpredictable changes or variations
- quirksUnusual individual traits
- capricesSudden impulsive urges
flights · notions · fads · crotchets · eccentricities · fickleness · volatility · unpredictability · spontaneity · whimsicality
infatuation
Short-lived intense attraction
yearning · adoration · passion · allure · charm · appeal · magnetism · fascination · enchantment · enticement
extravagances
Wasteful or lavish expenditures
- indulgencesExcessive self-granted pleasures
- treatsSnacks given as rewards
- splurgesSpends lavishly on treats
luxuries · opulence · elegance · finery · frou-frou · frills · trimmings · embellishments · ostentation · lavishness
- preferencespreferences, prefer, likes, like, liking
- daydreamingdaydreaming, daydreams, fantasies, deep in thought, musings
- imaginationimagination, daydreaming, daydreams, fantasies, dreams
- knickknackstchotchkes, trinkets, curios, bric-a-brac, gewgaws
- quirkseccentricities, idiosyncrasies, peculiarities, oddities, foibles
- thoughtsthought, idea, thoughts, ideas, thinking
fanciesfacts
Verifiable pieces of truth
realities · truths · actualities · certainties · verities
fanciesignores
Refuses to acknowledge
disregards · indifference · overlooks · neglects · tunes out
- cat fanciersDevotees of domestic felines
- pigeon fancierOne who breeds doves
fanciful, fancied, fancier, fanciest, fanciness, fancifulness, fanciers, unfancied