fantastique
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French fantastique.
Noun
fantastique (uncountable)
- (art, literature) A genre of literature and film that overlaps with science fiction, horror and fantasy; associated chiefly with French literature
- 1988, January 29, “Jonathan Rosenbaum”, in Invitation to the Trance:
- And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phantastikós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑ̃.tas.tik/
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “fantastique” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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