Meanings
nounfantasization (usually uncountable, plural fantasizations)
plural fantasizations · alternative fantasisation
- uncountableusuallyThe action of fantasizing.
To put it epigrammatically, fetishization of the commodity is accompanied by fantasization of the self.
1992, David Brett, C.R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship, page 129
Origin
From fantasize + -ation. Attested since the 20th century.
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