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Quality or state of being unreal, fantastic, mythical, or whimsical.

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  • Clearly, Dodie was the only one present afflicted by absurd fancifulness.
  • If those two guys were little homages to fancifulness, then the Creation Museum is a cathedral to it.
  • Most of her suggestions are tinged with the utopian fancifulness characteristic of the bourgeois theorist.
  • Holm was indeed entertaining and his lady laughed with the spontaneity of youth at the fancifulness of his remarks.
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