Webster's English Dictionary

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fantasia

fan.ta.sia also fan.ta.sie \fan-'ta--zh*, -z(h)e--*; .fant-*-'ze--*\ 
   \.fant-*-'ze-, .fa:nt-\ n [It fantasia, lit., fancy, fr. L phantasia - more 
   at FANCY] 1a: a free instrumental composition not in strict form (as the 
   development  section of sonata form) 1b: a potpourri of operatic arias or 
   familiar airs  2: a work (as a poem or play) in which the author's fancy 
   roves unrestricte d