fancifulness
Playful creative excess
Fancifulness is the quality of being fanciful—imaginative, whimsical, or given to flights of fancy.
It suggests ideas or creations that spring from imagination rather than reality or practicality: The fancifulness of her stories delighted the children.
The word can carry a mild dismissiveness, implying something is too impractical or disconnected from reality: He dismissed the proposal's fancifulness.
Magical children's story
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- mythicalOf folklore, not fact
- unicornMythical one-horned horse
dragon · mermaid · pixie · wonderland · otherworldly · storybook · legendary · enchanted
Misleading sensory impression
- chimeraUnrealistic fantasy or hybrid
- figmentImagined thing, unreal
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
unreality · mirage · phantasm · apparition · hallucination · specter · fiction · concoction
Idle mental wandering
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- dreamerOne given to fantasies
- imaginingForming mental pictures
- visualizationForming mental or graphical images
woolgathering · ideation · abstraction · make-believe · pretend · head-in-clouds · musing · invention
Playfully fanciful or erratic
- capriciousSubject to sudden changes
- quirkyIdiosyncratically unusual
- playfulInclined toward fun
- eccentricUnconventional in character
lighthearted · frivolous · impish · mischievous · sprightly · flighty · caprice · drollery
Decorative addition or exaggeration
- flourishTo grow vigorously
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
- decorationObject adding visual appeal
extravagance · baroque · rococo · filigree · frills · adornment · gilding · overelaboration
fairy-tale
Magical children's story
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- mythicalOf folklore, not fact
unicorn · dragon · mermaid · pixie · wonderland · otherworldly · storybook · legendary · enchanted · magical
illusion
Misleading sensory impression
- chimeraUnrealistic fantasy or hybrid
- figmentImagined thing, unreal
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
fabrication · unreality · mirage · phantasm · apparition · hallucination · specter · fiction · concoction · invention
daydreaming
Idle mental wandering
visualization · woolgathering · ideation · abstraction · make-believe · pretend · head-in-clouds · musing · invention
whimsical
Playfully fanciful or erratic
- capriciousSubject to sudden changes
- quirkyIdiosyncratically unusual
- playfulInclined toward fun
eccentric · lighthearted · frivolous · impish · mischievous · sprightly · flighty · caprice · drollery · absurdity
embellishment
Decorative addition or exaggeration
- flourishTo grow vigorously
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
decoration · extravagance · baroque · rococo · filigree · frills · adornment · gilding · overelaboration · ostentation
fancifulnesspracticality
Quality of being useful
pragmatism · realism · levelheadedness · matter-of-factness · down-to-earthness
fancifulnessplainness
Unadorned, straightforward quality
simplicity · austerity · starkness · spareness · minimalism
fancifulnessliteralness
Adherence to precise meaning
factualness · matter-of-factness · realism · exactness · truthfulness
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