fantasiser BrE
fantasizer AmE

A fantasizer and an improviser, he is not to be trusted, yet women repeatedly put their faith in him.

Charrière supposedly had a reputation as a great fantasizer and storyteller.

The studies showed that, with a few exceptions, the fantasizer's capacity to imagine contributed to their psychological well-being.

A relentless fantasizer and self-inventor, he treated the facts of his life as dramatic material.

Captain, have you ever used a fantasizer?

Fantasies that are concerned with far-fetched ideas are usually dropped by the fantasizer.

Lorry May in the "Escape" solo is effective as a fantasizer trapped in an oppressive space.

'You're supposing fantasy is something "made up", so therefore something the fantasizer herself doesn't believe in?'

I don't think so much that she is trying to deceive me as that she is a fantasizer.'

Limerent fantasy is unsatisfactory unless rooted in reality, because the fantasizer may want the fantasy to seem realistic and somewhat possible.

Such historiographic ambitions prompt historian Adrian Cioroianu to call Roller a "fantasizer" in the field.

"I am incessantly accused of being a fantasizer, of being facetious," he says without a trace of apology, as if in agreement.

An individual with this trait (termed a fantasizer) may have difficulty differentiating between fantasy and reality and may experience hallucinations, as well as self-suggested psychosomatic symptoms.

The whole power of fantasies lies in their being tailor-made for the fantasizer; the whole art of pornography lies in its tailoring private fantasy for the public.

"One of the tricks of comedy is to contrast the fantasy with the fantasizer," said Harry Shearer, the actor who played the bassist Derek Smalls in "Spinal Tap."

Seary was an unreliable witness, having already given discredited evidence accusing Dunn and Alistair at the initial Hilton bombing inquest, being a drug addict and a "mentally disturbed fantasizer".

He's more than an airy fantasizer, describing an unimaginable but glorious future centuries away; he is obviously rooted in an almost masochistic awareness of present circumstances, and there's never any question that he's responding immediately to what surrounds him.

And for the most part the extreme fantasizer's capacity to imagine contributes to his or her psychological well-being, serving, Dr. Lynn proposes, as a way to adapt to the stresses of reality - to deal with anger, for instance, or with trauma suffered long ago in childhood.