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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

空想家

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kōngxiǎngjiā

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fantasizer/ˈfæn.tə.saɪ.zər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他是一个空想家,经常构想出不切实际的宏伟计划。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who indulges in daydreams or creates elaborate mental scenarios about things they desire or wish to happen.

    "She was a hopeless fantasizer, always picturing herself living in a grand castle far away from reality."
  2. 2

    Someone who envisions creative or highly idealistic concepts that may be impractical.

    "As an architectural fantasizer, he designed futuristic floating cities that defied current engineering limits."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'fantasize', originating in the mid-19th century from the noun 'fantasy', which traces back via Old French and Latin to the ancient Greek 'phantasia' meaning appearance, image, or imagination. The agent suffix '-er' was added to denote a person who performs the action of daydreaming or creating elaborate mental imagery.

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