Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fantasticalness.
- noun Something fantastic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Fantastically.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
fantastical . - noun Anything that is fantastical.
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Examples
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They release the fantasticality which is laid under such heavy burdens in the novels.
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Why aren't more people talking about the fantasticality that is Hustle?
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None have blogged on The Unapologetic Mexican, but hey, there's talent, and then there's plain ole fantasticality.
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In The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz, that extraordinary document of what is called "Rosicrucianism" -- a symbolic romance of considerable ability, whoever its author was,147 -- an attempt is made to weld the two sets of symbols -- the one of marriage, the other of death and resurrection unto glory -- into one allegorical narrative; and it is to this fusion of seemingly disparate concepts that much of its fantasticality is due.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
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There were platters garnished with flowers and herbs, and containing roast turkeys and baked hams, jellied meats and game in aspic, puddings and tarts and frosted cakes -- every kind of food-fantasticality imaginable.
The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923
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It would be funny if Carvalho's fantasticality was crowned with success!
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921
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On the one hand, wilfulness and fantasticality are avoided, and on the other, prose and flatness.
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Frédérics great force was his extravagance, his fantasticality; and the stage of the Rue de Richelieu was a trifle too academic.
The Théâtre Francais 1914
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No affectation, fantasticality or distortion dwelt in him; no shadow of cant.
Paras. 1-24 1909
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"Yes," replied the dead voice of the woman without an inflection to suggest that she felt the fantasticality of her statement.
hernesheir commented on the word fantasticality
Oh, the fantasticality of it all.
March 16, 2011