fantasists
Those who daydream
Fantasists are people who indulge in fantasy or create elaborate imaginary scenarios.
The word often carries a dismissive edge, suggesting someone disconnected from reality: The plan was cooked up by fantasists who'd never run a business.
In a neutral sense, fantasists may simply be imaginative dreamers or writers of fantasy fiction.
Habitual mental wanderers
- dreamersThose with ambitious visions
- imaginersThose who form mental pictures
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- storytellersPeople who narrate tales
fabulists · romancers · mythmakers · inventors · escapists · idealists · creators · spinners
Advocates for ideal societies
- ideologuesAdherents of fixed doctrines
- dreamersThose with ambitious visions
- theoristsBuilders of explanatory frameworks
- romanticsIdealists about love
idealists · revolutionaries · radicals · impractical · unrealistic · naive · visionaries · zealots
- LewisCommon British surname
- speculativeBased on conjecture
- worldbuildersCreators of fictional universes
- novelistsWriters of long-form fiction
fabulists · storytellers · romancers · Pratchett · Martin · Sanderson · Jordan · imaginative
Tellers of falsehoods
- fabricatorsCreators of falsehoods
- deceiversThose who mislead intentionally
- pretendersThose falsely claiming something
- fibbersThose who tell untruths
exaggerators · embellishers · impostors · charlatans · dissemblers · mythomaniacs · falsifiers · hoaxers
daydreamers
Habitual mental wanderers
- dreamersThose with ambitious visions
- imaginersThose who form mental pictures
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
storytellers · fabulists · romancers · mythmakers · inventors · escapists · idealists · creators · spinners · tale-tellers
utopians
Advocates for ideal societies
- ideologuesAdherents of fixed doctrines
- dreamersThose with ambitious visions
- theoristsBuilders of explanatory frameworks
romantics · idealists · revolutionaries · radicals · impractical · unrealistic · naive · visionaries · zealots · purists
Tolkien
- LewisCommon British surname
- speculativeBased on conjecture
- worldbuildersCreators of fictional universes
novelists · fabulists · storytellers · romancers · Pratchett · Martin · Sanderson · Jordan · imaginative · epic
liars
Tellers of falsehoods
- fabricatorsCreators of falsehoods
- deceiversThose who mislead intentionally
- pretendersThose falsely claiming something
fibbers · exaggerators · embellishers · impostors · charlatans · dissemblers · mythomaniacs · falsifiers · hoaxers · tricksters
- Truth Stretchersliars, fibbers, embellishers, fabricators, bluffers
- Utopiansutopians, idealists, visionaries, dreamers, communitarians
fantasistsrealists
Those accepting things as-is
realist · pragmatists · empiricists · literalists · materialists
fantasistspragmatists
Those valuing practical results
straight shooters · bean counters · number crunchers · actuaries
fantasistsdocumentarians
Makers of factual films
journalists · historians · chroniclers · truth-seekers · reporters